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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2001
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A warm-up apparatus for a fuel evaporator comprises: a catalyst combustor for catalytically burning exhaust gas from a fuel cell to produce combustion gas and supplying the fuel evaporator which evaporates raw fuel liquid with the produced combustion gas as an evaporation heat source; an exhaust gas passage for transferring exhaust gas to the catalyst combustor; and a combustion gas transferring device including a fuel injection portion and a combustion catalyst , and injecting fuel from the fuel injection portion onto the combustion catalyst, where the fuel is catalytically burned to produce combustion gas, and thereafter transferring the produced combustion gas to the catalyst combustor. The combustion gas transferring device is positioned on one side of said exhaust gas passage.