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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2005
Rainer Pechtold, Russelsheim, DE;
Thorsten Rohwer, Trebur, DE;
Rainer Pechtold, Russelsheim, DE;
Thorsten Rohwer, Trebur, DE;
GM Global Technology Operations, Inc., Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A heated O-ring that has particular application for providing sealing in the connector region of a compressed hydrogen storage tank in a fuel cell system. In one embodiment, an electrical heating wire is wound through the O-ring so that resistive heating is provide by applying an electrical potential to the wire so that the temperature of the O-ring does not decrease below a predetermined temperature. In another embodiment, electrical heating elements are provided adjacent to and in contact with the O-ring, where an electrical potential applied to the heating elements causes the heating elements to maintain the temperature of the O-ring.