Safety device

US7628178B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Daimler AG · DE

Inventors

• Bernd Ackermann · Aachen, DE
• Wolfgang Fassnacht · Sindelfingen, DE
• Christoph Mueller · Bern, CH
• Theo Schick · Eßlingen, DE
• Rolf Walter · Waiblingen, DE
• Christian Weimer · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 18, 2004
• Grant date: Dec 8, 2009
• Expiry date: Sep 4, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60K15/04
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In a safety device for a tank system with a tank pipe 1 which has a pliable region and a rigid region, a reinforcing element 7 is allocated to the rigid region of the tank pipe 1. The reinforcing element 7 is hollow and is in contact with the entire circumference of the tank pipe 1 with its interior contour.