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US 12,636,973 B2Granted
Fuel cell system
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsSho Akabori, Takuto Nakagawa
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Abstract
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell and a secondary battery used as power sources of a power supply target object, and a control device for controlling driving of the power supply target object. The control device determines whether a predetermined condition required for activation of the fuel cell is satisfied, permits a battery-driven mode in which the power supply target object is driven using only the secondary battery when the predetermined condition is satisfied, and prohibits the battery-driven mode when the predetermined condition is not satisfied.
Claims5
A fuel cell system comprising:
- a fuel cell and a secondary battery used as power sources for a power supply target object;
- and
- one or more processors that execute computer-executable instructions stored in a memory, wherein the one or more processors execute the computer-executable instructions to cause the fuel cell system to:
- control driving of the power supply target object,
- determine whether a predetermined condition required for activation of the fuel cell is satisfied,
- permit a battery-driven mode, in which the power supply target object is driven using only the secondary battery, in a case where the predetermined condition is satisfied, and
- prohibit the battery-driven mode in a case where the predetermined condition is not satisfied,
- wherein the one or more processors cause the fuel cell system to:
- execute a maintenance control of the fuel cell in a situation where the power supply target object is not in operation, and record a control history;
- and
- determine that the predetermined condition is not satisfied in a case where the fuel cell is to be activated from an operation-stopped state in a situation where the power supply target object is not in operation and the control history includes a failure history.
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