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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2013
Airbus Operations Gmbh, Hamburg, DE;
Jürgen Steinwandel, Uhldingen-Mühlhofen, DE;
Christian Wolff, Ottobrunn, DE;
Claus Hoffjann, Hamburg, DE;
Airbus Operations GmbH, , DE;
Abstract
A drive unit includes a combustion chamber for combusting a fuel/air mixture, and a fuel cell device, wherein the fuel cell device includes at least one fuel cell, which in each case includes an anode that is couplable to a fuel line, a cathode that is couplable to an air source, and a fluid outlet and is arranged upstream of the combustion chamber. The combustion chamber further includes a combustion chamber inlet for supplying the fuel/air mixture, and a combustion chamber outlet for discharging exhaust gas, and the combustion chamber inlet is connected to the fluid outlet of the fuel cell device. In this way a hybrid drive unit can be provided which apart from mechanical power also generates electrical power at high efficiency.