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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2024
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Hiroya Nagata, Toyota, JP;
Yoshifumi Kawakami, Toyota, JP;
Ryosuke Yamamoto, Aichi-ken, JP;
Tomohiro Nakano, Nagoya, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A hydrogen power system includes a hydrogen engine that operates using hydrogen as an energy source, a hydrogen tank that stores liquid hydrogen, and a hydrogen pump that pumps up the liquid hydrogen from the hydrogen tank and outputs it to the hydrogen engine, A hydrogen pump, a part of which slides within the hydrogen tank, and a controller, and the controller stops driving the hydrogen pump when it is determined that the efficiency of the hydrogen pump is decreasing, and then, after a prescribed wait time has elapsed, the hydrogen pump is driven again.