US Patent Issued to SAFRAN on Sept. 23 for "Device for regulating the pressure of an aircraft cryogenic fuel tank" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,103, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris).

"Device for regulating the pressure of an aircraft cryogenic fuel tank" was invented by Hugo Pierre Mohamed Jouan (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Pierre-Alain Lambert (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Valery Pascal Marc Marie Piaton (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure regulating device includes an on-board storage tank, a mixing chamber, first and second lines, a recirculation line, a pressure sensor and a controller. The storage tank stores and supplies cryogenic fuel to a combustion chamber and includes a booster pump. The first line supplies cryogenic ...