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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2023
Cummins Inc., Columbus, IN (US);
Hydrogenics Corporation, Mississauga, CA;
Richard J. Ancimer, Toronto, CA;
Paolo Forte, Maple, CA;
Justin Roberto Rizzi, Oshawa, CA;
Prabhsimran Malhi, Brampton, CA;
Sumit Tripathi, Columbus, IN (US);
Eero Teene, Hamilton, CA;
Ashok Kumar, Columbus, IN (US);
HYDROGENICS CORPORATION, Mississauga, CA;
Abstract
The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for assessing the health of a fuel cell stack including collecting fuel cell stack operating data by a controller including stack voltage data and cell voltage monitoring data and determining the trust in the collected data, processing stack voltage data and cell voltage monitoring data by the controller to identify bad channels and weak cells amongst fuel cells included in the fuel cell stack, tracking the state of health of the fuel cell stack by the controller, and assessing the health of the fuel cell stack by the controller.