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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2005
Ronald James Kelley, Coral Springs, FL (US);
Steven Duane Pratt, Fort Lauderdale, FL (US);
Sivakumar Muthuswamy, Plantation, FL (US);
Robert Pennisi, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Ronald James Kelley, Coral Springs, FL (US);
Steven Duane Pratt, Fort Lauderdale, FL (US);
Sivakumar Muthuswamy, Plantation, FL (US);
Robert Pennisi, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Google Technology Holdings LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of and fuel cell system for limiting an amount of a fuel crossing over a membrane in a fuel cell, the method including determining an appropriate molecular ratio of the fuel and water for a fuel-water mixture; and controlling an amount of the fuel-water mixture that is available to an anode side of the membranein the fuel cell according to an amount of the fuel that will be electro-oxidized by the fuel cell. The fuel cell system includes a fuel cell membranehaving an anode layer, a cathode layer, and an electrolyte layerwhere the cathode layer is exposed to an oxygen source, and a fuel delivery systemincluding a fuel chamberdisposed around and proximate to the anode layer at a side opposite to the electrolyte layer, the fuel delivery system implementing the method above.