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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2005
Filed:
May. 14, 2002
Kiyoshi Kasahara, Saitama, JP;
Yuuji Asano, Saitama, JP;
Satoshi Hanai, Saitama, JP;
Takahiro Tachihara, Saitama, JP;
Kiyoshi Kasahara, Saitama, JP;
Yuuji Asano, Saitama, JP;
Satoshi Hanai, Saitama, JP;
Takahiro Tachihara, Saitama, JP;
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A raw fuel vaporizing apparatus comprising: a vaporizer for vaporizing liquid raw fuel; a raw fuel introducing device for introducing the liquid raw fuel into the vaporizer; a catalyst combustor into which fuel and air are supplied for catalytic combustion, the catalyst combustor generating heat in the presence of a catalyst and supplying the resulting heat to the vaporizer to vaporize the liquid raw fuel; a fuel introducing device for introducing the fuel into the catalyst combustor; an air introducing device for introducing the amount of the air suitable for catalytic combustion into the catalyst combustor; a heat transferring gas introducing device introducing heat transferring gas into the catalyst combustor to transfer heat retained by the catalyst combustor to the vaporizer; and a controller increasing the amount of the heat transferring gas through the heat transferring gas introducing device when the amount of vapor generated in the vaporizer is increased.