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https://drivepatents.com/patents/1000301 · 18 Jul 2012
Disclosed is a small-sized low-cost fuel cell having high fuel efficiency, wherein a solid oxide electrolyte membrane is interposed between a fuel electrode and an oxidant electrode. The fuel cell comprises a fuel production member which produces a fuel by...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1001146 · 20 Jun 2012
A fuel cell system is provided. The fuel cell system includes a fuel cell that includes an anode and a cathode, an anode gas path that supplies an anode fluid to the anode of the fuel cell, a cathode gas path that supplies a gaseous cathode fluid to the ca...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1005599 · 1 Feb 2012
The unit has cables (9) formed as media flow paths guiding air and/or fuel to two component connections. A fuel connection (3) is provided in a line device (100) for connecting a fuel connecting unit (5). The component connections are provided in the line ...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1012342 · 8 Jun 2011
Deterioration at the start-up and deterioration during the leaving period are suppressed in a good balance. As a system shutdown process, a controller (30) causes consumption of the air (oxygen) present in an oxidant electrode of a fuel cell stack (1) (oxy...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1012298 · 8 Jun 2011
At a start of a fuel cell, discharge of a generated water is ended at a proper timing. Supply of the reactive gas is started at a first flowrate. Then, in a case that the generated water retained by a reactive electrode is determined to outflow to an inter...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1013661 · 20 Apr 2011
A solid oxide fuel cell comprises a housing (100,200,300,300a) and a plurality of cells within the housing (100,200,300,300a). The housing (100,200,300,300a) comprises an inlet (114,214) to allow fluid to flow into the housing (100,200,300,300a), an outlet...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1016022 · 2 Feb 2011
The device (1) has cascade layers (2-5) flowed-through by operating gas and comprising fuel cells (10) i.e. polymer electrolyte membrane-fuel cells. The cells have gas distribution structures, and a gas supply (8) is guided from one of cascade layers to an...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1068356 · 12 Apr 2006
A fuel cell device includes a housing containing a fuel processor that generates fuel gas and a fuel cell having electrodes forming an anode and cathode, and an ion exchange electrolyte positioned between the electrodes. The housing can be formed as first ...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1068313 · 12 Apr 2006
The device has an air compression group (3) to supply air to a fuel cell (1) and an electronic control unit (4). The unit (4) has a hydrogen flow estimator (8) at output of a reformer (2) for estimating the hydrogen flow from input parameters including the...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1070888 · 11 Jan 2006
A system controller drives a gas circulator with a purge valve closed to supply hydrogen to a fuel cell stack and then increases anode operating pressure and cathode operating pressure to target operating pressures after a predetermined condition is satisf...