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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2022
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Naoki Yamano, Wako, JP;
Takuya Tamura, Wako, JP;
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An operating method of a fuel cell system which includes a plurality of fuel cell stacks; a refrigerant passage configured to circulate a refrigerant circulated in a first fuel cell stack among the plurality of fuel cell stacks through a second fuel cell stack among the plurality of fuel cell stacks; and a first temperature acquisition unit and second temperature acquisition unit configured to acquire a temperature of the refrigerant downstream of the first fuel cell stack and upstream of the second fuel cell stack, includes, when the temperature of the refrigerant acquired by the first temperature acquisition unit and the second temperature acquisition unit is equal to or lower than a predetermined temperature, after start of the first fuel cell stack and after elapse of a delay time, starting the second fuel cell stack, and variably setting the delay time according to the temperature of the refrigerant.