Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fuel cell system
- Patent Title (中): 燃料电池系统
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Application No.: US14342817Application Date: 2012-08-23
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Publication No.: US09553320B2Publication Date: 2017-01-24
- Inventor: Tetsuya Ogawa
- Applicant: Tetsuya Ogawa
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP
- Priority: JP2011-194992 20110907
- International Application: PCT/JP2012/071933 WO 20120823
- International Announcement: WO2013/035607 WO 20130314
- Main IPC: H01M8/04
- IPC: H01M8/04 ; H01M8/12

Abstract:
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell module for generating electrical energy by electrochemical reactions of a fuel gas and an oxygen-containing gas, and a condenser for condensing water vapor in an exhaust gas discharged from the fuel cell module by heat exchange between the exhaust gas and a coolant to collect the condensed water and supplying the collected condensed water to the fuel cell module. The condenser includes an air cooling condensing mechanism using the oxygen-containing gas as the coolant, and a water cooling condensing mechanism using the hot water stored in the hot water storage unit as the coolant. The air cooling condensing mechanism includes a thermoelectric converter for performing thermoelectric conversion by a temperature difference between the exhaust gas and the oxygen-containing gas.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140193727A1 FUEL CELL SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2014-07-10
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