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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2008
Applicant:
Michael Jon Veenstra, Southgate, MI (US);
Inventor:
Michael Jon Veenstra, Southgate, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01K 13/00 (2006.01); G01K 1/00 (2006.01); B60K 15/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60K 15/013 (2013.01); Y02E 60/321 (2013.01);
Abstract
A fuel storage vessel includes a valve operatively associated with the storage vessel, a conduit disposed within the vessel and in fluid communication with the valve for delivering a stream of pressurized fuel to the storage vessel and a detector adjacent the conduit for detecting a state of the pressurized fuel in the storage vessel. The detector is positioned outside of the stream of pressurized fuel.