EP2284433A1 - Etikett für Flaschen wie Gasflaschen und Gaszylinder - Google Patents

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EP2284433A1
EP2284433A1 EP09167936A EP09167936A EP2284433A1 EP 2284433 A1 EP2284433 A1 EP 2284433A1 EP 09167936 A EP09167936 A EP 09167936A EP 09167936 A EP09167936 A EP 09167936A EP 2284433 A1 EP2284433 A1 EP 2284433A1
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Andreas Zielasch
Markus Schnell
Walter Clemens
Franz Josef Kemmerich
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
    • F17C13/00—Details of vessels or of the filling or discharging of vessels
    • F17C13/002—Details of vessels or of the filling or discharging of vessels for vessels under pressure
    • F17C13/003—Means for coding or identifying them and/or their contents
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
    • F17C2201/00—Vessel construction, in particular geometry, arrangement or size
    • F17C2201/01—Shape
    • F17C2201/0104—Shape cylindrical
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
    • F17C2201/00—Vessel construction, in particular geometry, arrangement or size
    • F17C2201/03—Orientation
    • F17C2201/032—Orientation with substantially vertical main axis
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
    • F17C2201/00—Vessel construction, in particular geometry, arrangement or size
    • F17C2201/05—Size
    • F17C2201/058—Size portable (<30 l)
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
    • F17C2205/00—Vessel construction, in particular mounting arrangements, attachments or identifications means
    • F17C2205/05—Vessel or content identifications, e.g. labels
    • F17C2205/058—Vessel or content identifications, e.g. labels by Radio Frequency Identification
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
    • F17C2221/00—Handled fluid, in particular type of fluid
    • F17C2221/01—Pure fluids
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
    • F17C2221/00—Handled fluid, in particular type of fluid
    • F17C2221/03—Mixtures
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
    • F17C2270/00—Applications
    • F17C2270/01—Applications for fluid transport or storage
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
    • F17C2270/00—Applications
    • F17C2270/07—Applications for household use
    • F17C2270/0745—Gas bottles

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  • the present invention concerns tags, in particular RFID tags, for gas bottles and cylinders and a method for fixing RFID tags on such bottles and cylinders.
  • RFID tags are devices that allow an electronic, machine readable identification of the object carrying said tag.
  • a tag usually includes an RFID chip and an antenna in order to be able to transmit information (for example an identity code) to an RFID reader.
  • the reader respectively antenna must be placed close to the tag (respectively with fixed readers the tag be placed within the magnetic field of the RFID reader antenna).
  • the invention relates to an assembly comprising a bottle of gas and a rod shaped transponder (metal rod RFID tag), wherein the bottle has a convex upper face and a metal valve.
  • the transponder is located above and close to the upper surface and is oriented in an essentially radial direction this increasing the reading distance of such tags.
  • WO 2007/141733 the idea is to use the presence of a metal pull-ring fixed to the bottle by metal plates to attach the tag to one of said metal plates such that the tag is in a protected position.
  • the pull-ring must be present on the bottle otherwise the tag cannot be mounted in a protected position.
  • a magnetic transponder is mounted around the valve fitting on the ferrous body of a compressed gas bottle to enable remote identification of the bottle.
  • a metal valve guard encircles the valve filling, for the protection of the filling during transportation, which shields the bottle transponder from an external reader/exciter.
  • a coupler is provided having a first receive and transmit antenna outside of the valve guard and a second transmit receive and transmit antenna inside of a valve guard adjacent the transponder antenna. Electrical current carrying wires interconnect the two coupler antennae and extend through a wire receiving aperture formed in the valve guard.
  • the transponder has to be attached by some means to the valve fitting and it has the further disadvantage that it needs a coupler to transmit signals through the valve guard.
  • DE 199 11 034 discloses a ring holder made of two parts, one part of the ring containing the transponder that is a separate part from the rings. More specifically, the ring is made of two identical parts (half-rings) that can be fitted together. Each half ring comprises a projecting part that is intended to penetrate into a corresponding slot part of the bottle for attachment of the ring to the bottle (a slot that usually does not exist on such bottles). This implies the machining of such a slot on the bottle to meet this condition.
  • the transponder is placed in a chamber of one of the half-rings and these parts are placed on a bottle in the desired position.
  • the second half ring is brought laterally and attached to the first half ring.
  • This mounting procedure is quite complicated with at lest three parts (two half rings and a transponder), the machining of a slot and also is not easy to carry out since the antenna is not always protected.
  • the first half ring placed on the bottle must be maintained in position while the second half ring is being attached.
  • a problem one is confronted with, especially with such gas bottles and cylinders is to find away to place the tag in a protected position on the bottle/cylinder and to dispose of a fixing methodology that allows to equip gas cylinder park that often consist of several 100'000 or several millions of cylinders in an economically feasible way.
  • Another problem is once one is able to tag in a quick and easy way such cylinders to ensure that the tag remains into its position and cannot be removed without destruction.
  • the aim of the present invention is therefore to propose an improved tag fixation system and tagging method with respect to the prior art.
  • an aim of the present invention is to propose a tag system and method that is simple, efficient and easy to apply while resisting to all environmental and mechanical solicitation of several decades of the filed use of gas cylinders.
  • the tag system comprises a main ring that contains a tag (for example a RFID tag) and that is placed on the gas bottle or cylinder, preferably around a neck or flange of the bottle (in the case of industrial bottles, the standard flange on which the protection cap is screwed as shown in Fig. 1 , part 3), and a blocking ring that is force fitted between the gas bottle or cylinder and the main ring.
  • a tag for example a RFID tag
  • the main ring that contains a tag (for example a RFID tag) and that is placed on the gas bottle or cylinder, preferably around a neck or flange of the bottle (in the case of industrial bottles, the standard flange on which the protection cap is screwed as shown in Fig. 1 , part 3), and a blocking ring that is force fitted between the gas bottle or cylinder and the main ring.
  • FIG 1 as typical gas bottle/cylinder is illustrated.
  • This bottle/cylinder comprises a body 1 (with a general cylindrical shape) with a cylinder dome (also called shoulder) part 2.
  • Said top part 2 comprises a neck or standardized flange 3 which on a part of it, comprises a thread 4 (for screwing a valve cover (not shown).
  • the valve 5 comprises an outlet 6 for the gas.
  • the system is preferably mounted directly on the flange 3 (which is illustrated with dashed lines in figure 2 ) of the bottle in order to avoid problems when mounting the valve cover.
  • the tag system comprises a main ring 10 that carries the tag, typically a 360° RFID tag which is overmoulded by the main ring and thereby protected from mechanical and environmental wear.
  • the tag and the antenna are embedded into said ring 10 for ease of manipulation.
  • Said main ring 10 is introduced over the valve 5 of the bottle 1 until it rests against the top part 2 of the gas bottle/cylinder 1 on its standardized flange (part 3).
  • the main ring has a sufficient internal diameter for being easily slid over the said flange.
  • This flange although standardized, has a manufacturing tolerance in diameter up to several mm and may comprise numerous successive paint layers also contributing to a larger diameter by several millimetres.
  • the ring 10 is thus around the flange 3.
  • the ring further comprises a set of small steps 11 that are distributed inside its main opening 12.
  • the inner sides of this opening 12 are of a hollow profile as will be explained in more detail below.
  • a blocking ring 13 is used to block the main ring 10 in position on the bottle/cylinder.
  • the blocking ring 13 also comprises a set of steps 14 (see the detail illustrated in figure 3 ) that are designed to force fit with the steps 11 of the main ring 10.
  • the steps 11 of the main ring 10 a re similar to the steps 14 of the blocking ring 13.
  • This blocking ring is equipped with one or several vertical openings or slots (part 15) whose depth may arise to 90% of the blocking ring's height, slots that induce the flexibility of the blocking ring to cope with different cylinder flange diameters.
  • the fixation of the blocking ring, and of both rings on the bottle/cylinder, is made by force-fitting the blocking ring 13 between the main ring 10 and the external surface of the flange 3.
  • the steps 11 and 14 then blockingly cooperate together making both rings tightly fixed to the flange 3 of the bottle 1.
  • the slots 15 are used to compensate tolerances of the diameter of the flanges 3 of different bottles/cylinders, in case of presence of paint, difference of size etc. There can be one ore more such slots 15.
  • the embodiment described is only one possible way of realising the invention and other equivalent ways are possible.
  • the position of the rings could be inverted, with the blocking ring placed first on the flange of the bottle then the main ring being force-fitted over the blocking ring.
  • the blocking ring 13 should be the other way round with respect to its illustration of figure 2 and underneath the main ring 10.
  • the flaring of the steps 11 should be inverted with respect to the representation of figure 2 to take account of the position of the blocking ring.
  • the rings 10, 13 are preferably made of flame proof and UV resistant materials such as Polyamid reinforced with glass or other fibers. Of course any other equivalent materials may be envisaged.
  • equivalent shapes other than steps 11, 14 may be used, such as flanges, lips, threads etc.
  • a glueing step or other equivalent step may be carried out between the rings.
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EP2500619A1 (de) 2011-03-16 2012-09-19 Messer GasPack GmbH Originalitätssicherung für Druckgasflaschen
DE102011016041A1 (de) 2011-04-04 2012-10-04 Messer Gaspack Gmbh Kennungssystem für Druckgasflaschen
CN103158938A (zh) * 2011-12-13 2013-06-19 施特劳斯净水有限公司 容器和使用该容器的机器
WO2019143313A1 (en) 2018-01-18 2019-07-25 Bauer Compressors, Inc. Efficient, secure, and safe system and method for storing and monitoring data used for refilling compressed-gas tanks

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EP0586083A2 (de) * 1992-07-31 1994-03-09 Hughes Microelectronics Europa Limited Ringförmiger Transponder
GB2288103A (en) 1994-03-25 1995-10-04 Hughes Microelectronics Europa RF coupler for a shielded transponder
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EP0860648A2 (de) * 1997-02-14 1998-08-26 Millipore Corporation Automatisches Verfolgungssystem für Gasflaschen
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DE19911034A1 (de) 1999-03-12 2000-09-21 Messer Griesheim Gmbh Haltevorrichtung mit austauschbarer Transpondereinheit
WO2006075309A2 (fr) 2005-01-13 2006-07-20 Idtek Track-And-Trace S.A. Dispositif pour l'interrogation de transpondeurs
WO2007057874A1 (en) 2005-11-15 2007-05-24 Personeta Ltd. Enhanced telephony multimedia ringback and call waiting
WO2007141733A2 (fr) 2006-06-09 2007-12-13 Idtek Track-And-Trace Sa Bouteille de gaz comprenant un transpondeur

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EP0586083A2 (de) * 1992-07-31 1994-03-09 Hughes Microelectronics Europa Limited Ringförmiger Transponder
GB2288103A (en) 1994-03-25 1995-10-04 Hughes Microelectronics Europa RF coupler for a shielded transponder
US5697173A (en) * 1996-07-17 1997-12-16 Span Instuments Inventory control collar
EP0860648A2 (de) * 1997-02-14 1998-08-26 Millipore Corporation Automatisches Verfolgungssystem für Gasflaschen
EP1011069A2 (de) * 1998-12-15 2000-06-21 Messer Griesheim Gmbh Vorrichtung für die Aufnahme elektronischer Datenträger für Druckgasflaschen
DE19911034A1 (de) 1999-03-12 2000-09-21 Messer Griesheim Gmbh Haltevorrichtung mit austauschbarer Transpondereinheit
WO2006075309A2 (fr) 2005-01-13 2006-07-20 Idtek Track-And-Trace S.A. Dispositif pour l'interrogation de transpondeurs
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WO2007141733A2 (fr) 2006-06-09 2007-12-13 Idtek Track-And-Trace Sa Bouteille de gaz comprenant un transpondeur

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EP2500619A1 (de) 2011-03-16 2012-09-19 Messer GasPack GmbH Originalitätssicherung für Druckgasflaschen
DE102011014064A1 (de) 2011-03-16 2012-09-20 Messer Gaspack Gmbh Originalitätssicherung für Druckgasflaschen
DE102011016041A1 (de) 2011-04-04 2012-10-04 Messer Gaspack Gmbh Kennungssystem für Druckgasflaschen
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EP2508787A3 (de) * 2011-04-04 2018-03-14 Messer GasPack GmbH Kennungssystem für Druckgasflaschen
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WO2019143313A1 (en) 2018-01-18 2019-07-25 Bauer Compressors, Inc. Efficient, secure, and safe system and method for storing and monitoring data used for refilling compressed-gas tanks
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