Hydrogen generation device, a fuel cell system, and an analysis system
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsHideo Kitamura, Yoshiyuki Isozaki
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Abstract
A hydrogen generation device includes a container; a hydrogen generation unit configured to generate a hydrogen-containing gas; a combustion unit configured to combust a part of the hydrogen-containing gas; a sensor unit including a thermal deformation member, configured to sense a concentration of a combustible gas in an exhaust gas by further combusting the exhaust gas and sensing a physical deformation of the thermal deformation member caused in a temperature change by the combustion of the exhaust gas; and a shutoff valve configured to shut off a discharge of the exhaust gas in conjunction with the physical deformation.
Claims9
A hydrogen generation device comprising:
- a container containing an organic raw material;
- a hydrogen generation unit configured to generate a hydrogen-containing gas from the organic raw material;
- a combustion unit configured to combust a part of the hydrogen-containing gas;
- a sensor unit including a thermal deformation member, configured to sense a concentration of a combustible gas in an exhaust gas exhausted from the combustion unit by further combusting the exhaust gas and sensing a physical deformation of the thermal deformation member caused in a temperature change by the combustion of the exhaust gas;
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- a shutoff valve configured to shut off a discharge of the exhaust gas in conjunction with the physical deformation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.