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Patent No.:

US 9647287 B1

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Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 05, 2015
Applicant:

Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Toru Sukawa, Osaka, JP;

Kunihiro Ukai, Nara, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 8/04 (2016.01); H01M 8/04007 (2016.01); H01M 8/04014 (2016.01); H01M 8/0662 (2016.01); H01M 8/04089 (2016.01); H01M 8/0612 (2016.01); H01M 8/124 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 8/0675 (2013.01); H01M 8/04014 (2013.01); H01M 8/04067 (2013.01); H01M 8/04097 (2013.01); H01M 8/0618 (2013.01); H01M 8/0612 (2013.01); H01M 2008/1293 (2013.01);
Abstract

The fuel cell system includes a hydro-desulfurizer that removes a sulfur compound in raw material gas; a raw material gas heating unit that heats raw material gas before the raw material gas enters the hydro-desulfurizer; a reformer that generates reformed gas using the raw material gas that has passed through the hydro-desulfurizer; a fuel cell that generates electric power using the reformed gas from the reformer as fuel; a combustor that combusts fuel unused in the fuel cell; an exhaust gas channel through which exhaust gas generated in the combustor flows; and a housing that is provided in a part of the exhaust gas channel and houses the raw material gas heating unit and the hydro-desulfurizer, in which exhaust gas flowing through the housing undergoes heat exchange with the raw material gas heating unit and the hydro-desulfurizer.


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