Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Humidifier including an auxiliary humidifier utilzing electroosmosis
- Patent Title (中): 加湿器包括利用电渗的辅助加湿器
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Application No.: US13014102Application Date: 2011-01-26
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Publication No.: US08541139B2Publication Date: 2013-09-24
- Inventor: Haeng Jin Ko , Young Bum Kum , Young Woo Noh , Yun Seok Kim
- Applicant: Haeng Jin Ko , Young Bum Kum , Young Woo Noh , Yun Seok Kim
- Applicant Address: KR Seoul
- Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
- Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
- Current Assignee Address: KR Seoul
- Agency: Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
- Agent Peter F. Corless
- Priority: KR10-2010-0100066 20101014
- Main IPC: H01M8/04
- IPC: H01M8/04

Abstract:
A humidifier includes an inlet assembly provided in an air exhaust pipe, through which water-supersaturated exhaust gas is discharged from a fuel cell stack, to supply water condensed from the exhaust gas to the fuel cell stack and an outlet assembly provided in an air supply pipe, through which a reactant gas to be humidified and supplied to the fuel cell stack passes, to supply the water transferred through a pumping pipe to the air supply pipe such that the reactant gas is humidified. A pumping pipe including a porous material disposed therein along with electrodes are disposed between the inlet assembly and the outlet assembly so that the water is transferred through a capillary path in the porous material via a pumping force by electroosmosis when the electrodes apply a voltage.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120094197A1 HUMIDIFIER FOR FUEL CELL AND FUEL CELL SYSTEM USING THE SAME AS AUXILIARY HUMIDIFIER Public/Granted day:2012-04-19
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