MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517056627 A) filed by Robert Bosch Gmbh, Stuttgart, Germany, on June 12, for 'method for detecting a malfunction, tank system, computer program product, and storage means.'
Inventor(s) include Kuhnert, Christian; Lenz, Birgit; Kieferle, Stefan; Strasser, Markus; Wussler, Nicolas; Schwab, Martin; and Schugger, Christian.
The application for the patent was published on July 4, under issue no. 27/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a method for detecting a malfunction of a fuel outlet arrangement (16) in a tank system (11) for a fuel cell system (10), having the steps of: determining a transition from increased operation to reduced operation of the tank system (11) with a reduced fuel mass flow from fuel tanks (12, 13, 14) of the tank system (11), determining a pressure build-up gradient in a fuel line arrangement (15) during the reduced operation after a defined time has elapsed since the determined transition to reduced operation, providing a target pressure build-up gradient, performing a comparison between the determined pressure build-up gradient during the reduced operation and the provided target pressure build-up gradient, and detecting a malfunction of the fuel outlet arrangement (16) on the basis of the comparison. The invention furthermore relates to a tank system (11) and a computer program product (23) for carrying out the method, and to a computer-readable storage medium (24) on which such a computer program product (23) is stored."
The patent application was internationally filed on Jan. 03, 2023, under International application No.PCT/EP2023/050064.
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