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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2023
Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Ogata, Tsuchiura, JP;
Takafumi Arakawa, Tsuchiura, JP;
Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a construction machine including an electrically driven motor that serves as a power source, a heat exchanger, a fuel cell that generates power to be provided to the electrically driven motor, a cooling fan that blows cooling air to the heat exchanger, and a fan controller that controls rotation of the cooling fan. In the construction machine, a hydrogen gas detection sensor is provided in a machine room in which the heat exchanger, the fuel cell, and the cooling fan are disposed, and the fan controller raises a rotation speed of the cooling fan when the hydrogen gas detection sensor has detected a hydrogen gas.