ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,171, issued on March 18, was assigned to Linamar Corp. (Guelph, Canada).
"End boss for type IV pressure vessel" was invented by Vladimir Kovalevsky (Rantigny, France) and Jordan Sanches (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A type IV conformable pressure vessel has improved mechanical coupling between an outer composite shell and a boss. The pressure vessel comprises an inner polymeric liner having a flare edge fixedly coupled to the boss. The boss has a bore in fluid communication with an interior of the pressure vessel. In addition, the boss has a shank extending between the liner and the outer composite shell. The shank i...