Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fuel Cell System
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Application No.: US17076753Application Date: 2020-10-21
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Publication No.: US11621431B2Publication Date: 2023-04-04
- Inventor: Masahiro Ito , Masashi Toida , Hiroyuki Tsunekawa , Tsuyoshi Maruo
- Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota
- Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota
- Agency: Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
- Priority: JPJP2020-001351 20200108
- Main IPC: H01M8/04746
- IPC: H01M8/04746 ; H01M8/04082 ; H01M8/04223 ; H01M8/04089 ; H01M8/04119 ; H01M8/04701

Abstract:
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a hydrogen tank, a hydrogen supply passage connecting the hydrogen tank and the fuel cell, a cutoff valve configured to cut off circulation of hydrogen in the hydrogen supply passage, a detection unit configured to detect a start of filling of the hydrogen tank with hydrogen, and a purge controller configured to close the cutoff valve in a case where the fuel cell system is stopped and the detection unit detects the start of filling with hydrogen in a state in which purge processing of purging the in-cell hydrogen flow passage is to be executed, and to execute processing of purging the in-cell hydrogen flow passage by causing hydrogen remaining on a downstream side of the cutoff valve in a hydrogen flow in the hydrogen supply passage to flow in the in-cell hydrogen flow passage as the purge processing.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210210777A1 FUEL CELL SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD OF FUEL CELL SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2021-07-08
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