US 12,449,100 B2
Pressure vessel assembly and pressure vessel system
Lydia Moral Graci, Munich (DE); and Klaus Szoucsek, Zirndorf (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/797,945
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Feb. 4, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/052635
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 5, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/156349, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 12, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 103 155.6 (DE), filed on Feb. 7, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0053395 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. F17C 13/08 (2006.01); F17C 13/04 (2006.01)
CPC F17C 13/084 (2013.01) [F17C 13/04 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0142 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0326 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0329 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0332 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0335 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0388 (2013.01); F17C 2250/0439 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pressure vessel arrangement, comprising:
a plurality of pressure vessels configured to store fuel;
an external pressure relief apparatus that is disposed outside of the plurality of pressure vessels; and
a valve arrangement with at least one valve and a plurality of tank connectors, wherein
each pressure vessel of the plurality of pressure vessels is connected to one of the tank connectors; and
the valve arrangement connects the tank connectors directly to one another and to the at least one valve, such that a fluid exchange between the individual pressure vessels takes place directly and without a valve, wherein
at a first axial end of the plurality of pressure vessels each pressure vessel is directly connected to the valve arrangement, and
at a second axial end of the plurality of pressure vessels that is opposite to the first axial end only one of the plurality of pressure vessels is directly connected to the external pressure relief apparatus.