Patent ID: 9631584
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: B60K,F02M

Claim:
1. A heat storage member housed in a canister together with an adsorbent capable of adsorbing fuel vapor, comprising: a sealed container; and a phase-change material housed in the sealed container, the phase-change material configured to become semisolid gel state within the sealed container at the melting point of the phase-change material, and the phase-change material being disposed along an entire inner surface of the sealed container such that a space filled with an inert gas and configured to receive an expansion in volume of the phase-change material caused by phase-change is formed at a center of an inner space of the sealed container; wherein the phase-change material contains a gelator and at least one of C15-C18 paraffinic hydrocarbons; and wherein the gelator is olefin elastomer.