Jigs and fixtures of CNG containers for motor vehicles

摘要

A CNG cylinder mounting device for a vehicle according to the present invention has parts different from the typical CNG cylinder mounting device: the gas cylinder supporting frame has a feature of a steel plate shaped into two gas cylinder placement frame units. Each unit uses a belt to fasten the upper cylinder, locks the gas cylinder to the cylinder placement frame unit, and has four cylinder placement frame supporting sleeves underneath. The cylinder placement frame supporting sleeves are placed on the bed supporting bracket whereas the bed support is placed on the bored bed floor and has four bracket supporting sleeves under the floor inside the through holes.

主权项

1. A CNG cylinder mounting device for a vehicle comprising:
a plurality of assemblies, each assembly including at least two gas cylinder placement frame units, each unit having a lower cylinder fastening belt pre-assembled with a lower belt supporting rubber, an upper cylinder fastening belt pre-assembled with an upper belt supporting rubber, a connection member including a first plurality of spot nuts, a first plurality of anti-loosening locking nuts and a first plurality of bolts for connecting the lower cylinder fastening belt together with the upper cylinder fastening belt such that the anti-loosening locking nuts are tightened with the bolts before tightening them with the spot nuts fixed at the bottom of a flange of the lower cylinder fastening belt, a cylinder supporting plate for supporting the lower cylinder fastening belt, and a cylinder placement frame bracket for supporting the cylinder supporting plate; wherein each gas cylinder placement frame unit is connected on a bed frame unit having a bed floor on a plurality of frames placed to support the bed floor with the connection member including a second plurality of nuts and a second plurality of bolts; and at least one bolt of the second plurality of bolts is inserted into the cylinder placement frame bracket in penetration through the bed floor of the bed frame unit and screwed into at least one nut of the second plurality of nuts.