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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2008
Applicant:
Tadashi Tsunoda, Nerima-ku, JP;
Inventor:
Tadashi Tsunoda, Nerima-ku, JP;
Assignee:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 8/12 (2006.01); H01M 8/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack, a combustor, a heat exchanger, and heat utilization equipment. Further, the fuel cell system includes a bypass channel and a control device. In the bypass channel, at least some of heat medium produced in the combustor is supplied to the heat utilization equipment, bypassing the heat exchanger. The control unit adjusts the supply of the heat energy supplied to the fuel cell stack through an oxygen-containing gas heated by the heat exchanger, and adjusts the heat energy of the heat medium which passes through the bypass channel, and which is supplied to the heat utilization equipment.