Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.

Yohei Okamoto

Jared Michael Farnsworth

Daniel Charles Folick

Luke Alan Rippelmeyer

Systems and methods are provided for monitoring and controlling pump speeds to maintain a balanced pressure drop between each of the multiple fuel cell systems or circuits. In systems where a single radiator is used to maintain desired temperatures of multiple fuel cells, back flow can nevertheless be avoided. Control maps may be used to meet minimum pump speeds as a function of a flow splitting valve position and target flow rate (to prevent or avoid fluid back flow through a fuel cell stack). Control maps may also be used to determine a minimum pump speed as a function of three-way valve position (to prevent fluid back flow across a radiator path).

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Plano, TX, United States of America

Yohei Okamoto