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System for periodic fluid maintenance of apparatus

  • US 6,568,436 B1
  • Filed: 12/04/2000
  • Issued: 05/27/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A system for periodically maintaining at least one non-fuel fluid of an apparatus for proper operation comprising a first sub-system mounted on the apparatus for providing fluid communication between an apparatus fluid communication port and an apparatus component that requires non-fuel fluid, a second sub-system mounted at an off-apparatus fluid maintenance facility for providing a supply of maintenance fluid for a multitude of apparatus equipped with the first sub-system and for communicating the supply of maintenance fluid to the port on the apparatus, and control means for determining the quantity of the maintenance fluid to be supplied by the second sub-system to the first sub-system to maintain the non-fuel fluid, and for controlling fluid communication of the maintenance fluid from the second sub-system to the first sub-system during maintenance of the non-fuel fluid.

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