Fuel cell system
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsSeiichi Tanaka, Nobukazu Mizuno, Kazuo Yamamoto
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Abstract
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a fuel gas supply channel, a regulator, an injector, and a controller. The controller drives the regulator in conjunction with the injector. The controller compares a fuel gas flow amount necessary for the fuel cell to generate electricity with a predetermined fuel gas flow amount, selects the fuel gas flow amount that is larger, and issues commands to the regulator and the injector. The predetermined fuel gas flow amount is set to be larger than the fuel gas flow amount necessary for the fuel cell to generate the electricity when a generated current or output of the fuel cell is smaller than a predetermined threshold value.
Claims3
A fuel cell system, comprising:
- a fuel cell;
- a fuel gas supply channel that carries fuel gas to be supplied to the fuel cell;
- a regulator that is provided to the fuel gas supply channel and that adjusts pressure of the fuel gas;
- an injector that is provided to the fuel gas supply channel on a downstream side of the regulator and that supplies the fuel gas to the fuel cell;
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- a controller programmed to control the regulator and the injector such that the regulator is driven in conjunction with the injector,
- wherein the controller is programmed to compare a fuel gas flow amount necessary for the fuel cell to generate electricity with a predetermined fuel gas flow amount, selects the fuel gas flow amount that is larger, and control the regulator and the injector
- such that the predetermined fuel gas flow amount that is larger than the fuel gas flow amount necessary for the fuel cell to generate the electricity calculated from a generation request is injected from the injector, when a generated current or output of the fuel cell is smaller than a predetermined threshold value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.