US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Aug. 25 for "Fuel supply system for hydrogen aircraft, and tank internal pressure adjustment method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,551, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Fuel supply system for hydrogen aircraft, and tank internal pressure adjustment method" was invented by Koichi Sasaki (Kobe, Japan), Shigenori Yasuda (Kobe, Japan), Kazunari Tsuru (Kobe, Japan), Shota Tanaka (Kobe, Japan) and Kazuko Shimizu (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel supply system (1) for a hydrogen-powered aircraft includes: a fuel tank (2) that stores liquefied hydrogen; a pump (5) that discharges the liquefied hydrogen from the fuel tank (2) to supply the liquefied hydrogen to a propulsion device (102); a pressure increasing mecha...