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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2012
Applicant:
Clemens Schwab, Wendlingen, DE;
Inventor:
Clemens Schwab, Wendlingen, DE;
Assignee:
Daimler AG, Stuttgart, DE;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 8/04 (2016.01); H01M 8/04701 (2016.01); H01M 8/04029 (2016.01); H01M 8/04537 (2016.01); H01M 8/04791 (2016.01); H01M 8/04664 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 8/04701 (2013.01); H01M 8/04029 (2013.01); H01M 8/04626 (2013.01); H01M 8/04813 (2013.01); H01M 8/04679 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for cooling a fuel cell () using a liquid cooling medium, wherein of the starting materials supplied to the fuel cell and the products discharged from the fuel cell, at least one is gaseous during at least one of the operating conditions. The cooling medium is conveyed through the fuel cell () by a coolant conveying device (). The power consumption of the coolant conveying device () is compared to predefined reference values in order to detect gas in the liquid cooling medium by a deviation of the power consumption from the predefined reference values.