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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2021
Applicant:
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc, Plano, TX (US);
Inventor:
Takehito Yokoo, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Assignee:
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 8/04537 (2016.01); B60L 58/33 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 8/04619 (2013.01); B60L 58/33 (2019.02); H01M 2250/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and systems may provide for technology to detect an unbalanced degradation among a plurality of fuel cells in an automotive system and apply an unbalanced control across the plurality of fuel cells based on the unbalanced degradation. In one example, the unbalanced control balances the degradation among the plurality of fuel cells.