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US 2014/0272671 A1Published application
Fuel cell system and fuel consumption system
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsKiyoshi HANDA, Satoshi KAWASAKI
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Abstract
A fuel cell system and a fuel consumption system verify the location of a filling failure at a time that a fuel gas filling process suffers from such a filling failure. Either one of encoded data indicating an infrared radiation signal related to the fuel gas filling process, which is sent from a vehicle to an external hydrogen station, and a drive signal, which comprises a train of binary pulses converted from the encoded data, is recorded in a recording unit of the vehicle.
Claims7
A fuel cell system comprising:
- a fuel cell;
- a fuel storage unit for storing a fuel gas that is supplied to the fuel cell;
- a storage internal state detector for detecting an internal state of the fuel storage unit;
- a transmitter for sending a signal related to a fuel gas filling process to an external fuel supply source when the external fuel supply source fills the fuel storage unit with the fuel gas;
- and
- a controller having an information processor, which is supplied with a detected value detected by the storage internal state detector, and which processes information sent to the external fuel supply source based on the detected value, and a drive signal generator for converting data processed by the information processor into a drive signal for the transmitter,
- wherein the controller has a recording unit in which there is recorded at least one of the data processed by the information processor and the drive signal generated by the drive signal generator.
4 more elements
A fuel cell system comprising:
- a fuel cell;
- a fuel storage unit for storing a fuel gas that is supplied to the fuel cell;
- a storage internal state detector for detecting an internal state of the fuel storage unit;
- a transmitter for sending a signal related to a fuel gas filling process to an external fuel supply source when the external fuel supply source fills the fuel storage unit with the fuel gas;
- a filling controller having an information processor, which is supplied with a detected value detected by the storage internal state detector, and which processes information sent to the external fuel supply source based on the detected value, and a drive signal generator for converting data processed by the information processor into a drive signal for the transmitter;
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- a recording controller in which there is recorded at least one of the data processed by the information processor of the filling controller, and the drive signal generated by the drive signal generator of the filling controller.
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A fuel consumption system comprising:
- a fuel consumption apparatus;
- a fuel storage unit for storing a fuel gas that is supplied to the fuel consumption apparatus;
- a storage internal state detector for detecting an internal state of the fuel storage unit;
- a transmitter for sending a signal related to a fuel gas filling process to an external fuel supply source when the external fuel supply source fills the fuel storage unit with the fuel gas;
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- a controller having an information processor, which is supplied with a detected value detected by the storage internal state detector, and which processes information sent to the external fuel supply source based on the detected value, and a drive signal generator for converting data processed by the information processor into a drive signal for the transmitter,
- wherein the controller has a recording unit in which there is recorded at least one of the data processed by the information processor and the drive signal generated by the drive signal generator.
4 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.