Air cooler and fuel cell system
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorsJu Yong Lee, Sang Woo Kim, Yeon Su Nam, Min Jae Kim, Ho Kyo Jung
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Abstract
An air cooler includes: a cooler main body having a first zone and a second zone partitioned off from the first zone; cooling flow paths configured to cool the air and disposed in the first zone so that the air introduced into the cooler main body passes therethrough; bypass flow paths configured to allow the air to bypass the cooling flow paths and disposed in the second zone so that the air introduced into the cooler main body passes therethrough; and an opening/closing unit configured to selectively open or close the cooling flow paths, thereby obtaining an advantageous effect of simplifying a structure thereof and optimizing water balance of a fuel cell stack.
Claims17
An air cooler comprising:
- a cooler main body having a first zone and a second zone partitioned off from the first zone;
- cooling flow paths configured to cool the air and disposed in the first zone so that the air introduced into the cooler main body passes therethrough;
- bypass flow paths configured to allow the air to bypass the cooling flow paths and disposed in the second zone so that the air introduced into the cooler main body passes therethrough;
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- an opening/closing unit configured to selectively open or close the cooling flow paths.
A fuel cell system comprising:
- a fuel cell stack;
- a humidifier configured to humidify air to be supplied to the fuel cell stack;
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- an air cooler configured to selectively cool the air to be supplied to the humidifier,
- wherein the air cooler comprises:
- a cooler main body having a first zone and a second zone partitioned off from the first zone;
- cooling flow paths configured to cool the air and disposed in the first zone so that the air introduced into the cooler main body passes therethrough;
- bypass flow paths configured to allow the air to bypass the cooling flow paths and disposed in the second zone so that the air introduced into the cooler main body passes therethrough;
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- an opening/closing unit configured to selectively open or close the cooling flow paths.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.