Patent ID: 7992599

Claim:
An apparatus for fueling at least three fuel-cell-powered devices, each device having a profile and a fuel inlet, the apparatus comprising: a housing defining at least three device adaptor recesses, each device adaptor recess configured for accepting a device adaptor; at least three fuel ports, each of the ports having an outlet; at least three device adaptors each configured to fit within any of the three device adaptor recesses, including a first device adaptor, a second device adaptor and a third device adaptor, wherein each of the first, second, and third device adaptors are adjacent to one of the fuel ports and include a device recess for receiving a body of one of the devices, wherein the device recess of the first device adaptor has a shape that is disparate from the shape of the device recesses of the second and third device adaptors; at least three seals, each seal disposed to releasably establish a sealed fluidic connection between the fuel inlet of one of the devices and the outlet of one of the fuel ports; wherein each of the fuel ports are operative to dispense fuel when the inlet of the fuel-cell-powered device is in sealed engagement with the outlet of the at least one fuel port.