Hydropneumatic energy reservoir for accumulating the braking energy recovered on a vehicle

Patent · Tue Jun 04 00:00:00 EDT 1985

OSTI ID:6463617

Michel, R

Hydropneumatic energy reservoir for accumulating the braking energy recovered on a vehicle by means of a hydrostatic energy recovery-restoration device, combined or not with the vehicle transmission and working between a high-pressure accumulator and a low-pressure accumulator, characterized in that it comprises several oblong cylindrical hydropneumatic accumulators connected hydraulically in parallel and placed side by side inside a single casing of small height, the space included between the said casing and the said accumulators forming the low-pressure accumulator.

• Assignee: Renault Vehicules Industries (France)
• Patent Number(s): US 4520840
• OSTI ID: 6463617
• Resource Relation: Patent Priority Date: Priority date 12 Jul 1983, France; Other Information: PAT-APPL-513138
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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