Invention Grant
- Patent Title: State determination device and method for fuel cell
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Application No.: US15524104Application Date: 2014-11-07
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Publication No.: US09917315B2Publication Date: 2018-03-13
- Inventor: Tetsuya Aoki
- Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Yokohama-shi
- Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Yokohama-shi
- Agency: Foley & Lardner LLP
- International Application: PCT/JP2014/079633 WO 20141107
- International Announcement: WO2016/072026 WO 20160512
- Main IPC: H01M8/04
- IPC: H01M8/04 ; H01M8/0444 ; H01M8/10 ; H01M8/04537 ; H01M8/04992

Abstract:
A state determination device for a fuel cell for generating power upon receiving the supply of anode gas and cathode gas, comprising: an internal impedance measurement unit configured to measure an internal impedance of the fuel cell on the basis of an alternating-current signal of a predetermined frequency output from the fuel cell; and an anode reaction resistance estimation/calculation unit configured to calculate an estimation value of a reaction resistance of an anode electrode of the fuel cell on the basis of a measurement value of the internal impedance, wherein: the predetermined frequency is selected such that a difference between the estimation value of the reaction resistance of the anode electrode during hydrogen starvation and the estimation value of the reaction resistance of the anode electrode during oxygen starvation is not smaller than a predetermined value.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170324104A1 STATE DETERMINATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FUEL CELL Public/Granted day:2017-11-09
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