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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2021

Filed:

May. 24, 2018
Applicant:

Rolls-royce North American Technologies Inc., Indianapolis, IN (US);

Inventor:

Michael Karam, Plainfield, IN (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F17C 5/06 (2006.01); F17C 13/04 (2006.01); B64D 39/00 (2006.01); B64D 37/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F17C 5/06 (2013.01); F17C 13/04 (2013.01); B64D 37/16 (2013.01); B64D 39/00 (2013.01); F17C 2201/019 (2013.01); F17C 2201/0185 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0335 (2013.01); F17C 2227/0135 (2013.01); F17C 2227/0192 (2013.01); F17C 2270/0189 (2013.01); Y10T 137/3127 (2015.04);
Abstract

A container may be supplied with an incompressible fluid. For example, the container may be partially or completely prefilled with the incompressible fluid. The container may be supplied with a flow of compressible gas via a first valve. The first valve may regulate the flow of the compressible gas supplied to the container based on a pressure setting of the first valve. A second valve may release the incompressible fluid from the container as the container is filled with the compressible gas and in response to a pressure of the container being greater than a pressure setting of the second valve. The pressure setting of the first valve may be greater than the pressure setting of the second valve.


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