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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1998
Hitoshi Kudo, Hirakata, JP;
Noriyuki Yamaga, Hirakata, JP;
Mikio Shinagawa, Neyagawa, JP;
Junji Adachi, Osaka, JP;
Yoshinori Tokunaga, Toyonaka, JP;
Toru Nakamura, Kadoma, JP;
Noboru Hashimoto, Suita, JP;
Manabu Mizobuchi, Kobe, JP;
Kensaku Kinugawa, Shijonawate, JP;
Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A portable power generating system can be operated by using a portable pressure canister containing a liquefied butane fuel gas. In the power generating system, a part of the butane gas contained in the pressure canister is used as a fuel gas and reminder of the butane gas is used to prepare a reformed gas containing hydrogen gas by reaction with water. The hydrogen gas in the reformed gas and oxygen gas in air are used in a fuel cell to generate electric power. The power generating system is characterized in a compact portable one which further comprises a device for regulating the amount of the butane gas discharged from said pressure canister and a device for controlling a flow rate of the butane gas, installed in feed lines of supplying the butane gas from said pressure canister to said reforming device.