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| 20100098980 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM - Disclosed is a fuel cell system including a fuel cell, a fuel supply passage through which a fuel gas supplied from a fuel supply source flows to the fuel cell, an on/off valve which regulates the state of the gas on the upstream side of the fuel supply passage to supply the gas to the downstream side thereof, a sensor which detects the state of the gas in the fuel supply passage, and control means for controlling the on/off valve based on a value detected by the sensor. The control means stops the opening/closing operation of the on/off valve when the sensor falls into an abnormal state. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100104905 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM - The present invention is directed to a fuel cell system having fuel cells, a supply flow path for allowing a fuel gas, which is supplied from a fuel supply source, to flow to the fuel cells; a variable gas supply device for regulating a gas condition on the upstream side of the supply flow path and supplying the regulated gas to the downstream side; a first control device for driving and controlling the variable gas supply device; an off-gas flow path capable of releasing a fuel off-gas, discharged from the fuel cells, to the outside through a discharge valve; a second control device for driving and controlling the discharge valve; and a defect detection device for detecting a defect of the discharge valve. By using a gas supply command amount for the variable gas supply device, the defect detection device detects a valve opening defect that the discharge valve does not return from an open state to a closed state. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100279193 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SYSTEM - The present invention is a fuel cell system including a fuel cell, an injector which is provided in a hydrogen supply channel of the fuel cell and which adjusts a gas state of an upstream side of the hydrogen supply channel to supply a gas toward a downstream side, and a control device which drives and controls the injector. The control device controls an operation of the injector based on a driving state of an associated device including the fuel cell system | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100316926 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM - A fuel cell system performs feedback control with respect to a reactive gas supplying apparatus based on a proportional obtained by multiplying a deviation of an actual flow quantity from a target value of a reactive gas supplied to the fuel cell from the reactive gas supplying apparatus by a proportional gain and an integral term obtained by multiplying the deviation by an integration gain to perform time integration in such a manner that the actual flow quantity coincides with the target value, and changes an update arithmetic operation of the integral term in accordance with a value of the deviation. | 12-16-2010 |
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| 20100209796 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING REACTANT GAS SUPPLY AMOUNT - The amount of a reactant gas to be supplied can be controlled efficiently with a reduction in the effort required. A control unit judges whether or not the state where an atmospheric pressure detection value detected by an atmospheric pressure sensor does not fall within the range of 0.6 V to 4.48 V has continued for or longer than 50 ms. If the state has not continued for or longer than 50 ms, the control unit outputs an atmospheric pressure correction value by converting the atmospheric pressure detection value into an atmospheric pressure value and then passing the atmospheric pressure value through a low-pass filter. On the other hand, if the state has continued for or longer than 50 ms, the control unit outputs 101.3 kPa.abs which serves as a substitute value for the atmospheric pressure correction value. The control unit then converts respective pressure detection values detected by pressure sensors into gate pressure values, and adds the atmospheric pressure correction value to each of the gate pressure values so as to calculate absolute pressures of the respective reactant gases in an oxidant gas pipe system and a hydrogen gas pipe system. The control unit controls the supply amount of each of the reactant gases with respect to a fuel cell based on these absolute pressures. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100248061 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM - A fuel cell system having an on-off valve disposed in a fuel supply flow path implements highly accurate control of the on-off valve by properly correcting a detected pressure value of a fuel gas on an upstream side of the on-off valve. The fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a fuel supply flow path for supplying a fuel gas to be supplied from a fuel supply source to the fuel cell, an on-off valve which adjusts the state of a gas on an upstream side of the fuel supply flow path and supplies the gas to a downstream side, a pressure sensor which detects the pressure value of the fuel gas on the upstream side of the on-off valve of the fuel supply flow path, and a control means which controls the on-off valve on the basis of the pressure value detected by the pressure sensor. The fuel cell system further includes a pressure correcting means which corrects a pressure value detected by the pressure sensor on the basis of a fuel consumption amount of the fuel cell and a drive cycle of the on-off valve. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100248062 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM - A fuel cell system having an on-off valve, such as an injector, disposed in a fuel supply flow path restrains a pressure detection error of a fuel gas in the vicinity of the on-off valve to a small level. The fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a fuel supply flow path for supplying a fuel gas, which is supplied from a fuel supply source, to the fuel cell, an on-off valve which adjusts the condition of a gas on an upstream side of the fuel supply flow path and then supplies the gas to a downstream side, and a control means which controls the drive of the on-off valve at a predetermined drive cycle, wherein the control means sets the upper limit value of a duty ratio at each drive cycle of the on-off valve. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100255397 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM - To improve a response performance in a fuel cell system in which an on/off valve such as an injector is disposed in a fuel supply passage, by decreasing a pressure adjusting error occurring when the drive cycle of the on/off valve fluctuates. A fuel cell system comprises a fuel cell, a fuel supply passage for supplying to the fuel cell a fuel gas supplied from a fuel supply source, an on/off valve for adjusting a gas state on the upstream side of the fuel supply passage to supply the gas to the downstream side thereof, and control means for driving and controlling the on/off valve. The control means calculates a feed-forward correction flow rate based on the drive cycle of the on/off valve, corrects the command value of the gas injection flow rate of the on/off valve by use of the feed-forward correction flow rate, and drives and controls the on/off valve based on the command value. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100273081 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM AND MOVING BODY - The amount of a reactant gas supplied to a fuel cell is properly maintained even in the case where a failure of reactant gas supply takes place in the middle of a drive cycle of a valve device. Provided is a fuel cell system including: a fuel cell; a gas supply flow path for supplying the reactant gas to the fuel cell; a valve device which is provided in the gas supply flow path and driven at a predetermined drive cycle; a controller which controls the drive of the valve device such that the reactant gas supplied to the fuel cell reaches a target gas state; and a sensor which measures the gas state of the reactant gas on a downstream side of the valve device, wherein the controller drives the valve device independently of the predetermined drive cycle in the case where the controller detects that the difference between the target gas state and a gas state measured by the sensor has exceeded a predetermined value. | 10-28-2010 |
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| 20090029226 | Fuel Cell System and Method for Operating the System - The present invention is a fuel cell system including a fuel cell, an injector which is provided in a hydrogen supply channel of the fuel cell and which adjusts a gas state of an upstream side of the hydrogen supply channel to supply a gas toward a downstream side, and a control device which drives and controls the injector. The control device controls an operation of the injector based on a driving state of an associated device including the fuel cell system | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090130510 | Fuel Cell System and Mobile Article - There is disclosed a fuel cell system including a fuel cell, a fuel supply system to supply a fuel gas to the fuel cell, an injector which adjusts a gas state on an upstream side of the fuel supply system to supply the gas to a downstream side, and a control unit which drives and controls the injector in a predetermined drive cycle. The control unit sets the drive cycle of the injector in accordance with an operation state of the fuel cell. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090253008 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM - A fuel cell system of the present invention includes a fuel cell, a supply channel which supplies, to the fuel cell, a fuel gas supplied from a fuel supply source, a variable gas supply device which adjusts a gas state on an upstream side of this supply channel to supply the gas to a downstream side, a control section which performs PI control of a gas supply command amount with respect to the variable gas supply device, and an abnormality judgment section to judge whether or not the variable gas supply device is abnormal. The controller uses, as a part of a correction term of the PI control, a learning term constituted by integrating an I term only in a case where an operation state of the fuel cell satisfies predetermined learning allowable conditions. The abnormality judgment section judges based on this learning term whether or not the variable gas supply device is abnormal. | 10-08-2009 |
