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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2024
Filed:
May. 13, 2022
Zeroavia, Inc., Hollister, CA (US);
Bob L. Mackey, San Jose, CA (US);
Valery Miftakhov, San Carlos, CA (US);
Callum Woods Larson Ritchie, Gilroy, CA (US);
Christian Bailey, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kevin-Patxi Le Bras, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
ZEROAVIA, INC., Hollister, CA (US);
Abstract
A fuel cell system having at least one fuel cell having an external surface; and one or more of audio, image, or strain sensors external to the fuel cell surface, configured for detecting a change in the external surface of the fuel cell indicative of a fault condition. The at last one sensor may include a visual camera, an IR camera, an IR detector, or a UV-responsive camera, or an ultrasound transducer, a piezoelectric sensor and a vibration sensor, or a surface acoustic wave detector, or a mass spectrometer.