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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2021
Terradepth, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Josef Wolfel, Austin, TX (US);
Judson A. Kauffman, Austin, TX (US);
Andrew Resnick, Austin, TX (US);
Kenneth L. Childress, Camano Island, WA (US);
David L. Pearson, Austin, TX (US);
Terradepth, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) may include a fuel cell charging system including a power generation subsystem having an air breathing subsystem taking intake air from the external atmosphere, a supply of compressed hydrogen in onboard storage tanks, an air-breathing PEMFC receiving the intake air and hydrogen, the PEMFC operable to produce electric energy and generating waste water, a water removal system for discharging the waste water offboard, and the fuel cell charging system having a power storage subsystem including a chargeable battery subsystem to receive electric energy to charge the chargeable battery subsystem. A system manager of an onboard data processing system may be configured to control the fuel cell charging system.