Fluid storage device and associated systems and methods

US8105484B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Cummins Filtration IP, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Gerard Malgorn · Quimper, FR
• Arnaud Le Ven · Castres, FR
• Emmanuel Page · Treveoc, FR
• Jean-Yves Picard · Quimper, FR
• J. Bruce Schelkopf · Zionsville, US
• Barry M. Verdegan · Stoughton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 19, 2008
• Grant date: Jan 31, 2012
• Expiry date: Sep 10, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F02M37/28
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

According to one representative embodiment, a fluid storage device for storing a first fluid in a second fluid storage container fillable with a second fluid includes a first fluid storage container, a first fluid inlet coupled to the first fluid storage container, and a first fluid outlet coupled to the first fluid storage container. The first fluid storage container is flexible. The first fluid inlet is communicable in fluid receiving communication with a first fluid source. The first fluid in the first fluid storage container is caused to drain from the first fluid outlet based on at least one of a first fluid level, a first fluid storage container pressure, a second fluid storage container pressure, the second fluid storage container filling with the second fluid, the first fluid outlet being opened for first fluid egress, and a first fluid outlet pressure.