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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
John Zhongzhi Hu, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Nishith Pramod Vora, Niskayuna, NY (US);
George Charles Goodman, Schenectady, NY (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 8/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 8/04 ;
Abstract
A method of detecting faults in a fuel cell system, the method comprising: comparing a plurality of fuel cell measurements to respective ones of a plurality of range limits to yield a plurality of range flags; differentiating the fuel cell measurements to yield a plurality of fuel cell rates; comparing the fuel cell rates to respective ones of a plurality of rate limits to yield a plurality of rate flags; and classifying the range flags and the rate flags to yield a fault detection decision.