| US 7,484,521 B2 | ||
| Tank system including multiple tanks and control method thereof | ||
| Masahiko Kimbara, Okazaki (Japan); Nobuyuki Ogami, Anjo (Japan); Akira Yamashita, Toyota (Japan); and Nobuo Kobayashi, Toyota (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Aug. 03, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/909,351. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2003-288529 (JP), filed on Aug. 07, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0061371 A1, Mar. 24, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. F17D 1/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 137—14 [137/266; 137/487.5; 137/899] | 19 Claims |
| 12. A flow rate control method of a tank system having multiple tanks, said tank system making a joint flow of a fluid released
from the multiple tanks and supplying the joint flow to a downstream device, which is located downstream of the multiple tanks,
said flow rate control method comprising the steps of:
individually measuring internal pressures of the multiple tanks as primary pressures; pressure;
individually controlling, for the joint flow with a supply flow rate of the fluid to be released, the release flow rate by
each of the multiple tanks; and
individually regulating release flow rates of the fluid to be released from the multiple tanks by monitoring current primary
pressures that are continuously provided from the primary pressure measurement modules to the pressure control module.
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