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US 12,658,459 B2Granted
Systems and methods for controlling the thermal management system in a fuel cell powertrain system
AssigneeCummins Inc.
InventorsYongfei Yu, Archit N. Koti, Patrick Kaufman, Jairo Martinez Garcia, Vivek Anand Sujan, Sagar Sharma
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Abstract
The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for controlling a thermal management system of a fuel cell powertrain system.
Claims11
A fuel cell powertrain system comprising,
- more than one fuel cell system, and
- a heating assist system including one heater connected to at least one heat exchanger in a bypass loop,
- herein a first fuel cell system is associated with a first coolant and a second fuel cell system is associated with a second coolant, and wherein heat generated from operating the first fuel cell system is used to heat the second fuel cell system during a cold start.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.