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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014
Filed:
May. 07, 2010
Applicants:
Hiroshi Tatsui, Shiga, JP;
Kiyoshi Taguchi, Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Hiroshi Tatsui, Shiga, JP;
Kiyoshi Taguchi, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 8/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A fuel cell system includes a reforming unit, a carbon monoxide decreasing unit, a fuel cell, a burner unit, a raw gas supply device, and a heating unit. The heating unit is controlled at a start-up operation of the fuel cell system, so as to adjust an amount of a desorbed raw gas desorbed out of components of the raw gas adsorbed to at least one of a reforming catalyst and a carbon monoxide decreasing catalyst such that a ratio of an amount of combustion air to an amount of a raw gas in the burner unit falls within a predetermined range.