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US 12,640,383 B2Granted
Fuel cell system
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsTomoyuki Inoue, Yuto Nakatani
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Abstract
The fuel cell system includes a control unit that calculates the flow rate of the oxygen-containing gas flowing through the supply passage based on the opening degree of the bypass valve, the opening degree of the stop valve, and the state of the oxygen-containing gas supply in the oxygen-containing gas supply unit, and determines that the measurement value of the flow rate measurement unit is not normal when the difference between the calculation value and the measurement value by the flow rate measurement unit is equal to or larger than a predetermined amount.
Claims4
A fuel cell system comprising:
- a fuel cell stack configured to generate electric power using an oxygen-containing gas and a fuel gas;
- a supply passage through which the oxygen-containing gas to be supplied to the fuel cell stack flows;
- a discharge passage through which the oxygen-containing off-gas discharged from the fuel cell stack flows;
- a bypass channel connecting the supply passage and the discharge passage;
- an oxygen-containing gas supply unit provided in the supply passage and configured to supply the oxygen-containing gas to the fuel cell stack;
- a flow rate measurement unit disposed in the supply passage and configured to measure a flow rate of the oxygen-containing gas flowing through the supply passage;
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- a bypass valve provided in the bypass channel, an opening degree of the bypass valve being adjustable;
- a stop valve provided in the discharge passage, an opening degree of the stop valve being adjustable;
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- one or more processors that execute computer-executable instructions stored in a memory, wherein the one or more processors are configured by the computer-executable instructions to:
- acquire a calculation value of a flow rate of the oxygen containing gas flowing through the supply passage based on the opening degree of the bypass valve, the opening degree of the stop valve and a state of oxygen-containing gas supply in the oxygen-containing gas supply unit, and determine a measurement value by the flow rate measurement unit to be anomalous in a case where a difference between the calculation value and the measurement value by the flow rate measurement unit is equal to or greater than a predetermined value.
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