Suspended type fueling system

• US 5,954,102 A
• Filed: 12/08/1997
• Issued: 09/21/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tatsuno Corporation
• Original Assignee: Tatsuno Corporation
• Inventors: Terahara, Yosei, Sato, Yoshiyuki, Fukumoto, Shoichi
• Primary Examiner(s): JACYNA, J CASIMER
• Application Number:
  US08/986,518
• Time in Patent Office: 652 Days
• Field of Search: 141/59, 141/83, 141/94, 141/98, 141/231, 141/392, 705/413, 137/234.6, 137/236.1, 222/14, 222/25, 222/28, 222/40, 222/72
• US Class Current: 141/83
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 7/228 using digital counting
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 7/342 by discriminating the kind of liquid by analysis or by physical properties, e.g. vapour-pressure
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 7/38 Arrangements of hoses, e.g. operative connection with pump motor hoses in general F16L11/00
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 7/425 including components powered by electricity or light

Abstract

A suspended type fueling system of the present invention is composed of an oil reservoir, fueling tube, fueling hose with a nozzle, pump on the fueling tube, pump motor for diving the pump, flow-meter, control unit, fueling operation unit on the fueling nozzle. The fueling tube is connected to the oil reservoir underground at one end and to the fueling hose at the other end. The fueling tube is extended overhead and drawn to a lower part therefrom. The fueling operation unit contains an indication member for indicating fueling data measured by the flow meter, a nozzle ascent-descent switch for transmitting nozzle ascent and descent signals to the control unit, and a combined-use-switch for suspending oil discrimination and performing a rounding off of fueling.

Claims

1. A suspended type fueling system comprising:

an oil reservoir;

a fueling tube connected to said oil reservoir at one end thereof, and extended overhead;

a fueling hose connected to said fueling tube at the other end of said fueling tube;

a pump provided on said fueling tube;

a pump motor provided on said pump for driving said pump;

a flow-meter provided on said fueling tube;

a fueling nozzle provided on said fueling hose at the free end thereof;

a control unit for controlling fueling, oil discrimination and rounding off fueling; and

a fueling operation unit provided on said fueling nozzle, comprising an indication member for indicating fueling data measured by said flow meter, a nozzle ascent-descent switch for transmitting a nozzle ascent and descent signals to said control unit, and a combined-use-switch for suspending oil discrimination and performing rounding off fueling.

2. The suspended type fueling system as claimed in claim 1, wherein fueling is started without performing oil discrimination by said combined-use-switch being pressed prior to the start of fueling.

3. The suspended type fueling system as claimed in claim 1, wherein rounding off fueling is performed by said combined-use-switch being pressed while fueling suspension.

4. The suspended type fueling system as claimed in clam 1, wherein said control unit comprises a nozzle ascent-descent control part, an oil discrimination control part, a combined-use-switch control part, a fueling control part, and a pump control part.

5. The suspended type fueling system as claimed in claim 4, wherein said fueling nozzle comprises therein an air pump, an air pump motor and an oil discrimination sensor.

6. The suspended type fueling system as claimed in claim 5, wherein said oil discrimination control part outputs a positive rotation signal to said air pump motor by the receipt of an oil discrimination instruction signal, said oil discrimination sensor detects the kind of oil in a tank to be fueled, transmits a fueling start signal to said combined-use-switch control part, said fueling control part and said pump control part when the detected kind of oil and oil in said oil reservoir are consistent with one another or when an oil discrimination unnecessary signal is received from said combined-use-switch control part, transmits an indication signal to said indication member when the detected kind of oil and oil in said oil reservoir are inconsistent or when the kind of oil cannot be detected, and outputs a negative rotation signal to said pump motor for scavenging gas of oil in said oil discrimination sensor.

11. The suspended type fueling system as claimed in claim 4, wherein said pump control part outputs a staring signal to said pump motor by the receipt of a fueling start signal, and stops said pump motor by the receipt of the fueling completion signal from said nozzle ascent-descent control part.

7. The suspended type fueling system as claimed in clam 4, further comprising a pulse generator onto said flow-meter, a control valve nearby said flow-meter and an fueling amount indicator at an upper part of a fueling area.

8. The suspended type fueling system as claimed in claim 7, wherein said combined-use-switch control part transmits an oil discrimination unnecessary signal to said oil discrimination control part when said combined-use-switch is pressed prior to the receipt of the fueling start signal from said oil discrimination control part, and transmits a rounding off fueling signal to said fueling control part while pulses from said pulse generator has not been received after the receipt of the fueling start signal.

9. The suspended type fueling system as claimed in claim 7, wherein said fueling control part opens said control valve with bringing previous fueling data indicated on said fueling amount indicator and said indication member to zero by the receipt of the fueling start signal from said oil discrimination control part, sets a round number as quantity selected from the group consisting of fueling amount of money and fueling quantity, closes said control valve when fueling corresponding to the round number is achieved, and ends the control by the receipt of a fueling completion signal from said nozzle ascent-descent control part.

10. The suspended type fueling system as claimed in claim 9, wherein said fueling control part converts flux pulses generated by said pulse generator to numbers and indicates the numbers on said fueling amount indicator and said indication member while fueling.