Cummins Inc.

Hydrogenics Corporation

Archit N Koti

Vivek Anand Sujan

Kenneth M Follen

Arun Prakash Thunga Gopal

Pinak Jayant Tulpule

Mugdha S Sane

Patrick Kaufman

Avinash Vallur Rajendran

David Paul Genter

Apurva Arvind Chunodkar

Agneya Turlapati

Rohit Saha

Sumit Tripathi

Elizabeth Weitzel

Guangji Ji

Jairo A Martinez Garcia

Martin T Books

Jing Yan Ma

Michael Haas

Govindarajan Kothandaraman

Nathaniel Ian Joos

Christopher R Nelson

Edmund P Hodzen

Xing Jin

Manik Narula

Aaron William Beinborn

Patrick J Shook

Jairo Andres Sandoval Leon

Feng Liu

Joseph P Chandraraj

Vinayak Mandavkar

Jeffrey W Rinker

Chinmay Rao

Rohinish Gupta

Brian K Landes

Sunil S Bahulikar

Pradheepram Ottikkutti

Parul Chadha

Jeffrey A Green

Jacob A Brown

Nilesh Hasabnis

Mario Miranda

Taojie Chen

Lixin Peng

Jacky Wei

Aiden Wang

Yong Xia

Yongfei Yu

Jifei Yan

Jean-Baptiste Gallo

Suhas Deutkar

Sachin Vinayak Damle

Sandesh Sadawarte

Sharon Liu

Charles Vesely

Loren DeVries

A hydrogen storage tank of a vehicle includes a housing defining an inlet/outlet opening, a control assembly extending into the housing through the opening and comprising a plurality of sensors, and a controller configured to receive signals from the plurality of sensors. The controller of the hydrogen storage tank is configured to, in response to a request for a handshake signal, initiate sending the handshake signal, and in response to the vehicle being started, initiate periodically sending data indicating parameter values received from the plurality of sensors.

Smart hydrogen storage tanks for fuel cell applications

The subject matter described herein generally relates to look ahead energy management and control systems and methods for detecting, incorporating, and leveraging look ahead technology data to improve the performance, durability, and life of fuel cell systems.

Look ahead energy management and control systems and methods to improve fuel cell system performance, durability, and life

The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for implementing power a power split between a first and a second power source in a fuel cell powertrain system. The method includes receiving an input into a processor of the fuel cell powertrain system, determining an output by the processor, communicating the output by the processor to a system controller and determining a power split by the system controller. The first power source includes a fuel cell system and the second power source is selected from a battery system or an engine, and the input includes a life or health of at least one of the first power source or the second power source.

Fuel cell powertrain systems and methods for power split and allocation in fuel cell powertrain systems

The present disclosure generally relates to a system and methods for managing and controlling emissions produced by a vehicle and/or powertrain which includes one or more power sources selected from a fuel cell, a fuel cell stack, a battery, and combinations thereof, a processor, one or more inputs, a controller, and one or more emission control devices.

Methods and systems for managing and controlling emissions in a hybrid system

An air handling system for a fuel cell stack includes a pneumatic storage device disposed downstream from a compressor, a flow control valve system configured to operatively couple an inlet of the pneumatic storage device to an outlet of the compressor and configured to operatively couple an outlet of the pneumatic storage device to an inlet of the fuel cell stack, and a controller configured to, in response to a power demand being greater than a threshold, cause the flow control valve to open to increase a flow rate of air from the pneumatic storage device to the fuel cell stack.

Air tank and variable geometry air handling in hydrogen fuel cells

The present disclosure relates to improved placement, positioning, and/or orientation of radiators and baffles on a vehicle to improve and/or optimize air flow, radiator, and fuel cell performance.

Fuel cell vehicle radiator placement and orientation

Systems, apparatuses, and methods disclosed herein relate to a system including a vehicle accessory and a controller coupled to the vehicle accessory. The controller is configured to receive internal vehicle information including information about the vehicle accessory; receive external static information based on a position of the vehicle; receive external dynamic information based on the position and a time of travel of the vehicle at the position; and control operation of the vehicle accessory based on the internal vehicle information, the external static information, and the external dynamic information.

Systems and methods of energy management and control of vehicle accessories

Methods and systems for improving fuel economy and reducing emissions of a vehicle with an electric motor, an engine and an energy storage device are disclosed. The methods and systems involve obtaining lookahead information and current state information, wherein the lookahead information includes a predicted vehicle speed, and the current state information includes a current state of charge (SOC) for the energy storage device coupled to the electric motor; and determining, based on the lookahead information and the current state information, a target power split between the energy storage device and the engine.

Method and system for improving fuel economy of a hybrid powertrain in a vehicle

The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods of using water output from a fuel cell system to aid in heat dissipation and evaporative cooling of radiators.

Systems and methods to utilize water output of fuel cell systems for evaporative cooling of radiators

A system for a fuel cell vehicle includes a providing fuel cell fuel port, a fuel cell fuel storage tank, a fuel cell fuel flowmeter, and a pressure regulator. The fuel cell fuel storage tank is fluidically coupled to the providing fuel cell fuel port. The fuel cell fuel flowmeter is coupled between the fuel cell fuel port and the fuel cell fuel storage tank and is configured to measure flow of fuel cell fuel from the fuel cell fuel storage tank to the providing fuel cell fuel port. The pressure regulator is coupled between the fuel cell fuel flowmeter and the fuel cell fuel storage tank and is configured to control pressure of fuel cell fuel flowing from the fuel cell fuel storage tank to the providing fuel cell fuel port.

Fuel cell vehicle to refuel another vehicle

The present disclosure relates to a method and system for determining, applying, and/or managing the state-of-health of fuel cell to control the lifespan of the fuel cell in a vehicle and/or powertrain.

Methods and systems for managing and implementing state-of-health to control lifespan of a fuel cell

An electronic control system is configured to control operation of a platoon including a plurality of vehicles. The electronic control system may be configured one or more of operate each of the vehicles to provide operation emulating the lowest non-platooning vehicle performance capability among the plurality of vehicles of the platoon, operate an individualized predictive cruise control (IPCC) process for each of the vehicles and a corresponding supervisory safety process for the platoon, and operate a cooperative predictive cruise control (CPCC) process for each of the vehicles and a corresponding supervisory safety process for the platoon.

Vehicle platoon controls providing improved fuel efficiency and vehicle collision mitigation

A vehicle comprises an aftertreatment system configured to reduce constituents of an exhaust gas. The vehicle also includes a controller configured to determine a predicted load on the vehicle during a route, and adjust at least one of a temperature of the aftertreatment system or an amount of a reductant inserted into the aftertreatment system based on the predicted load.

Systems and methods for managing aftertreatment systems

Disclosed are various techniques to optimize load delivery management of multiple vehicles along route. The optimization can involve evaluating vehicle-in-front information along with look ahead data to determine a recommended speed target and/or idle stop times and durations. The optimization can also involve determining bottleneck conditions from one or more vehicles and/or one or more infrastructure conditions and providing one or more recommended actions in response thereto.

Multi-vehicle load delivery management systems and methods

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