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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2019
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Naoki Tomi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Shigeki Hasegawa, Toyota, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
When setting a requested operating point of a compressor that supplies oxidizing gas to a fuel cell by a target flow rate and a target pressure ratio, a control section of a fuel cell system sets the target pressure ratio to be equal to or higher than a minimum pressure ratio corresponding to the target flow rate using a predetermined operation characteristic in which a minimum pressure ratio that can be realized to the flow rate that can be discharged from the compressor. In the case where a condition under which it should be determined that the minimum value of the pressure ratio in an actual operation characteristic of the compressor differs from the minimum pressure ratio in the predetermined operation characteristic is satisfied, the control section updates the minimum pressure ratio in the predetermined operation characteristic using the minimum value of the pressure ratio in the actual operation characteristic.