Patent ID: 6786250
Filing Date: 2004-09-07
Classification: B67D,G06Q,Y10T

Abstract:
A fuel-dispenser station useable by a customer to transfer fuel, which the customer has purchased from a fuel vendor, from the fuel vendors fuel-storage tank to a fuel reservoir of the customer, said fuel-dispenser station comprising:fuel-dispenser station frame-structure to which other components of said fuel-dispenser station are directly or indirectly engaged and from which said other components of said fuel-dispenser station derive support directly or indirectly; a hydraulics system through which fuel is transferred between the fuel vendors fuel-storage tank and one or more fuel dispenser hoses when said fuel-dispenser station is operated; a hydraulics module that comprises a hydraulics-module frame-structure and hydraulics components of said hydraulics system that are mounted to and supported by said hydraulics module frame structure; wherein said hydraulics module comprises one or more pairs of an inlet connection-component and an outlet connection component which are engaged directly or indirectly to and are supported directly or indirectly by said hydraulics-module frame-structure; wherein said inlet connection-component and said outlet connection-component of each pair of an inlet connection-component and an outlet connection-component of said hydraulics module are in fluid communication with one another through a fuel-flow path defined through a series of hydraulics components connected in series between said inlet-connection-component and said outlet connection-component; wherein all active and reactive hydraulics components of said hydraulics system that are downstream of said inlet connection-components of said hydraulics module are connected in series between said inlet connection-component and said outlet connection-component; wherein said hydraulics components that are connected in series between said one or more pairs of an inlet connection-component and an outlet-connection-component are engaged directly or indirectly to and derive support directly or indirectly from said hydraulics-module frame structure; and wherein said hydraulics module further comprises any and all electrical connections-components and/or mechanical connection-components necessary to connect all components of said hydraulics module to one another to enable proper functioning of said fuel-dispenser station.