Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fuel cell system
- Patent Title (中): 燃料电池系统
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Application No.: US12447577Application Date: 2008-03-10
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Publication No.: US08088527B2Publication Date: 2012-01-03
- Inventor: Kota Manabe , Hiroyuki Imanishi , Tomoya Ogawa
- Applicant: Kota Manabe , Hiroyuki Imanishi , Tomoya Ogawa
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota-shi
- Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota-shi
- Agency: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP
- Priority: JP2007-061810 20070312
- International Application: PCT/JP2008/054831 WO 20080310
- International Announcement: WO2008/114761 WO 20080925
- Main IPC: H01M8/04
- IPC: H01M8/04

Abstract:
When a power generation instruction value for a fuel cell is reduced during warm-up of the fuel cell by a low power generation efficiency operation as compared to a normal operation and when supply of a reactant gas to the fuel cell cannot be controlled so as to follow the reduction of the power generation instruction value, the reactant gas supply to the fuel cell is reduced and the output voltage to the fuel cell is increased. Thus, it is possible to charge an excessive power equivalent to a difference between a fuel cell generation amount and the power generation instruction value into a capacitance component of the fuel cell, so that the power supplied to the external load of the fuel cell coincides with the power generation instruction value. Thus, when a power request for the fuel cell during the low-efficiency operation is suddenly reduced, it is possible to perform control so that the excessive power is not supplied to the external load.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100055522A1 FUEL CELL SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2010-03-04
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