Fuel Reservoir for Fuel Cell
AssigneeMitsubishi Pencil Company, Limited
InventorsTakahiro Osada, Yoshihisa Suda, Toshimi Kamitani, Kunitaka Yamada, Kouji Nishimura
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Abstract
The fuel reservoir for a fuel cell is a fuel reservoir detachably connected with a fuel cell main body, and it is equipped with a fuel-storing vessel of a tube type for storing a liquid fuel and a fuel discharge part; the fuel discharge part is provided with a valve for sealing communication between the inside and the outside of the above fuel-storing vessel. The valve assumes a structure in which a slit is formed in an elastic material and a structure in which a valve member is pressed by a resilient body, and is opened by inserting a fuel-supplying member.
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A fuel reservoir for a fuel cell detachably connected with a fuel cell main body, wherein:
- the fuel reservoir is equipped with a fuel-storing vessel for storing a liquid fuel and a fuel discharge part;
- the fuel discharge part is equipped with a valve for sealing communication between the inside and the outside of the fuel-storing vessel;
- the inside of the fuel-storing vessel is communicated with the fuel cell main body by inserting a liquid fuel-supplying member into the valve, thereby forming a communication part that communicates the inside of the fuel-storing vessel with the fuel cell main body and through which the liquid fuel in the inside of the fuel-storing vessel is supplied to the fuel cell main body;
- the valve comprises an elastic material and has an elliptic form or a circular form in a cross section;
- the communication part is a slit which is provided in a minor axis direction of the ellipse or a diameter direction of the circle;
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- a major axis of the ellipse or a diameter of the circle in the direction rectangular to the slit is compressed to a shorter length than a length thereof.
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