Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fuel cell device
- Patent Title (中): 燃料电池装置
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Application No.: US11005747Application Date: 2004-12-07
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Publication No.: US07666538B2Publication Date: 2010-02-23
- Inventor: Nobuhisa Ishida , Yasuhiro Sando , Kusunoki Higashino
- Applicant: Nobuhisa Ishida , Yasuhiro Sando , Kusunoki Higashino
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione
- Priority: JP2004-178549 20040616
- Main IPC: H01M2/00
- IPC: H01M2/00

Abstract:
A fuel cell device has a small and compact structure as a whole. The fuel cell device employs a fuel cell (e.g., direct methanol fuel cell of an MEA structure) using liquid fuel. Diluted liquid fuel is prepared by diluting the liquid fuel (methanol-contained liquid in the case of DMFC) with dilution liquid, and is supplied to the fuel cell. A first pump unit stacked on the fuel cell supplies the diluted liquid fuel to the fuel cell while diluting the liquid fuel by mixing the liquid fuel and the dilution liquid together. A second pump unit stacked on the fuel cell collects liquid (water usable as dilution liquid in DMFC) produced by an electrochemical reaction in the fuel cell.
Public/Granted literature
- US20050282054A1 Fuel cell device Public/Granted day:2005-12-22
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