Fuel collection device
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsKei MATSUOKA, Yoshiyuki Isozaki
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Abstract
A fuel collection device detachably attached a fuel cell, the fuel cell having: a power generation unit generating power by chemically reacting a fuel; a fuel flow path supplying the fuel to the power generation unit; and a circulation pump circulating the fuel in the fuel flow path, the fuel collection device includes: a collection tank connected to the fuel flow path, and collecting the fuel in the fuel flow path by driving the circulation pump; and an air supplier connected to the fuel cell, and supplying an air to the power generation unit.
Claims15
A fuel collection device detachably attached a fuel cell, the fuel cell having:
- a power generation unit generating power by chemically reacting a fuel;
- a fuel flow path supplying the fuel to the power generation unit;
- and a circulation pump circulating the fuel in the fuel flow path, the fuel collection device comprising:
- a collection tank connected to the fuel flow path, and collecting the fuel in the fuel flow path by driving the circulation pump;
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- an air supplier connected to the fuel cell, and supplying an air to the power generation unit.
A fuel collection device detachably attached a fuel cell, the fuel cell having:
- a power generation unit generating power by chemically reacting a fuel;
- a fuel flow path supplying the fuel to the power generation unit;
- and a circulation pump circulating the fuel in the fuel flow path, the fuel collection device comprising:
- a collection tank connected to the fuel flow path, and collecting the fuel in the fuel flow path by driving the circulation pump;
- an air supplier connected to the fuel flow path, and supplying an air to the power generation unit;
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- a recognition unit recognizing whether the fuel collection device is applicable for collecting the fuel from the fuel cell,
- wherein the fuel cell further comprises a control unit controlling:
- collecting the fuel in the fuel flow path to the collection tank by driving the circulation pump when the recognition unit recognized that the fuel collection device is applicable for collecting the fuel from the fuel cell;
- and supplying the air to the power generation unit by driving the air supplier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.