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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:
Jun. 18, 2024

Filed:

Jan. 18, 2022
Applicant:

Neoex Systems, Inc., Amherst, OH (US);

Inventor:

Mark S. Haberbusch, Amherst, OH (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F17C 5/04 (2006.01); B60K 15/03 (2006.01); B64D 37/14 (2006.01); B64D 39/00 (2006.01); B64F 1/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60K 15/03006 (2013.01); F17C 5/04 (2013.01); B60K 2015/03019 (2013.01); F17C 2221/012 (2013.01); F17C 2223/0161 (2013.01); F17C 2260/022 (2013.01); F17C 2260/025 (2013.01);
Abstract

A refueling system may include an inlet tube that fluidly connects to a container containing gaseous hydrogen, a cryocooler including a cold tip and a cold head, the cold tip driven to a hydrogen liquefaction temperature by the cold head, a condensation chamber fluidly connected to the inlet tube to receive the gaseous hydrogen and thermally connected to the cryocooler cold tip, a catalyst disposed in the condensation chamber and that conducts ortho-to-para hydrogen conversion. The cryocooler cold tip absorbs a resulting exothermic reaction. The refueling system may also include a funnel fluidly connected to the condensation chamber and that receives liquid hydrogen from the condensation of the gaseous hydrogen, and a coupling mechanism fluidly connected to the funnel to receive the liquid hydrogen and having a nozzle downwardly movable to fluidly connect from above to an upwards facing tank inlet of a vehicle.


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