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公开(公告)号:US10270108B2
公开(公告)日:2019-04-23
申请号:US15313318
申请日:2015-05-07
发明人: Daniel Ninan , Nathaniel Palmer , Sophie Charlotte Harris , Phillip Wardle , Jonathan Cole , Iain Fraser , Peter David Hood , Paul Leonard Adcock
IPC分类号: H01M8/04 , H01M8/04007 , H01M8/04029 , H01M8/04223 , H01M8/0432 , H01M8/04701
摘要: A coolant storage tank (1) for storing coolant in a fuel cell system (2), the coolant storage tank comprising a plurality of individually controllable heater elements (7, 8a, 8b). A coolant storage tank comprising a first heater element (7) located at a base of the coolant storage tank and a second heater element (8a) is also disclosed. A coolant storage tank comprising a first coolant storage compartment (50) in fluid communication with a second coolant storage compartment (51), the first coolant storage compartment including at least a first heater element (54) and wherein the second coolant storage compartment is unheated is also disclosed. A method of melting frozen coolant in a coolant storage tank is also disclosed.
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公开(公告)号:US10243219B2
公开(公告)日:2019-03-26
申请号:US14655750
申请日:2013-12-18
IPC分类号: H01M8/0258 , H01M8/0263 , H01M8/0267 , H01M8/242 , H01M8/0206 , H01M8/0254
摘要: A fluid flow plate for an electrochemical assembly has a plurality of first fluid flow channels extending across an active area of the flow plate to define a first fluid flow field of the fluid flow plate and a plurality of second fluid flow channels extending across the active area of the flow plate to define a second fluid flow field of the fluid flow plate. An array of first fluid transfer points is disposed along an edge of the first fluid flow field for communicating fluid into or out of the first fluid flow channels. An array of second fluid transfer points is disposed along an edge of the second fluid flow field for communicating fluid into or out of the second fluid flow channels. A first fluid gallery a first peripheral edge portion bounded by the array of first fluid transfer points and has a second peripheral edge portion forming a first fluid communication edge of the fluid flow plate. A second fluid gallery has a first peripheral edge portion bounded by the array of second fluid transfer points and has a second peripheral edge portion forming a second fluid communication edge of the fluid flow plate. The first fluid gallery and the second fluid gallery are shaped such that the combined lengths of the second peripheral edge portions are longer than the first peripheral edge portion of the second fluid gallery or the first fluid gallery. Increasing the lengths of the second peripheral edge portions of each gallery to the maximum possible length compared to the length of fluid transfer points (i.e. width of the active flow field area) optimizes fluid distribution into the channels of the flow plate.
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公开(公告)号:US20190077521A1
公开(公告)日:2019-03-14
申请号:US15772490
申请日:2016-10-26
摘要: The application relates to a fueling station for a fuel generator having a fuel generator reservoir, the fueling station comprising: a station reservoir (11) for storing at least one reactant for fuel generation; a fueling interface (14) configured to engage with the fuel generator reservoir and dispense the at least one reactant to the fuel generator reservoir; and a controller (18) configured to: receive a parameter indicative of an intended use of the fuel generator; and control the fueling interface to dispense the at least one reactant in accordance with the parameter.
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公开(公告)号:US10186719B2
公开(公告)日:2019-01-22
申请号:US15102794
申请日:2014-12-16
发明人: Paul Leonard Adcock
IPC分类号: H01M8/02 , H01M2/20 , H01M2/30 , H01M8/0202 , H01M8/2465 , H01M8/00 , H01M8/04537 , H01M2/06
摘要: A fuel cell stack assembly comprises fuel cells disposed in a stacked configuration, each cell substantially parallel to an x-y plane and including a tab extending laterally from an edge of a plate in the cell in the x-direction to form an array of tabs extending along a side face of the fuel cell stack in a z-direction orthogonal to the x-y plane. A connector engages with the tabs of the fuel cell stack. The connector comprises a support region and engagement regions, each engagement region bounded by the support region and configured to receive one of the array of tabs by engagement in the x-direction. The connector has flexible conductors, each of the flexible conductors laterally extending from the support region over at least a portion of one of the engagement regions and configured to be deflected away from the support region by a received tab.
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公开(公告)号:US10181611B2
公开(公告)日:2019-01-15
申请号:US15529973
申请日:2015-11-26
发明人: Shahin Moghimi , Vince Gardner , Nathaniel Palmer , Simon Foster , Pratap Rama
IPC分类号: H01M8/04 , H01M8/04223 , H01M8/04029 , H01M8/04007 , H01M8/04089 , H01M8/04746 , H01M8/04791 , H01M8/0432 , H01M8/04858
摘要: A method of operating a fuel cell system comprising a fuel cell assembly configured to generate electrical power from a fuel flow and an oxidant flow, the method comprising a first phase and a subsequent second phase, the first phase comprising; operating the fuel cell assembly with a first stoichiometric ratio of oxidant flow to fuel flow to generate electrical power; providing said generated electrical power to a heater element for heating a coolant for supply to said fuel cell assembly; the second phase comprising; delivering coolant heated in the first phase to the fuel cell assembly; operating the fuel cell assembly with a second stoichiometric ratio of oxidant flow to fuel flow to generate electrical power, the second stoichiometric ratio lower than the first ratio.
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公开(公告)号:US10181604B2
公开(公告)日:2019-01-15
申请号:US14655754
申请日:2013-12-18
IPC分类号: H01M8/0258 , H01M8/04007 , H01M8/0267 , H01M8/0206 , H01M8/1018
摘要: A bipolar fluid flow plate for an electrochemical assembly comprises a plurality of first fluid flow channels extending across a face of the flow plate to define a first fluid flow field of the fluid flow plate and a plurality of second fluid flow channels extending across a face of the flow plate to define a second fluid flow field of the fluid flow plate. The pluralities of first fluid flow channels and second fluid flow channels both occupying a common channel plane. An array of first fluid transfer points is disposed along an edge of the first fluid flow field for communicating fluid into or out of the first fluid flow channels. An array of second fluid transfer points is disposed along an edge of the second fluid flow field for communicating fluid into or out of the second fluid flow channels. A first fluid gallery has a first peripheral edge portion bounded by the array of first fluid transfer points and has a second peripheral edge portion forming a first fluid communication edge of the fluid flow plate. A second fluid gallery has a first peripheral edge portion bounded by the array of second fluid transfer points and has a second peripheral edge portion forming a second fluid communication edge of the fluid flow plate. The first fluid gallery occupies a first gallery plane and the second fluid gallery occupies a second gallery plane different from the first gallery plane. Both the first gallery plane and the second gallery plane are disposed within the channel plane. This structure enables the feeding of multiple different fluids into coplanar channels across the full width of a flow field.
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公开(公告)号:US10179734B2
公开(公告)日:2019-01-15
申请号:US14787641
申请日:2014-05-01
发明人: Harry John Karmazyn
摘要: A fuel supply apparatus comprising; a reaction chamber for hosting a reaction when a fuel generating fluid and a fuel generating substance are brought together to generate fuel, a plurality of discrete fuel generating fluid chambers, each chamber being separately rupturable; and, a heater assembly adapted to, when in use, selectively rupture the fuel generating fluid chambers to supply fuel generating fluid to the reaction chamber.
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公开(公告)号:US10164267B2
公开(公告)日:2018-12-25
申请号:US14615260
申请日:2015-02-05
发明人: Vijay M. Iyer , Jean L. Lee , Gregory L. Tice
IPC分类号: H01M8/02 , H01M8/10 , H01M8/24 , H01M8/0271 , H01M8/241 , H01M8/0258 , H01M8/2457 , B23K31/02 , H01M8/2465 , H01M8/0245 , H01M8/0202 , H01M8/1004
摘要: The disclosed embodiments provide a fuel cell plate. The fuel cell plate includes a substrate of electrically conductive material and a first outer layer of corrosion-resistant material bonded to a first portion of the substrate. To reduce the weight of the fuel cell plate, the electrically conductive material and the corrosion-resistant material are selected to be as light as practicable.
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公开(公告)号:US20180273194A1
公开(公告)日:2018-09-27
申请号:US15571258
申请日:2016-04-29
发明人: David Edgar , Henri Winand
CPC分类号: B64D27/24 , B64C39/024 , B64C2201/021 , B64C2201/027 , B64C2201/042 , B64C2201/104 , B64C2201/108 , B64C2201/165 , B64D2041/005 , B64D2211/00 , H01M8/1007 , H01M2250/20 , Y02T50/55 , Y02T50/62 , Y02T90/32 , Y02T90/36
摘要: The disclosure relates to an unmanned aerial vehicle, wherein the fuel cell provides a structural component of the vehicle.
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公开(公告)号:US20180261854A1
公开(公告)日:2018-09-13
申请号:US15974550
申请日:2018-05-08
发明人: Jeremy SCHROOTEN , Paul SOBEJKO , Joerg ZIMMERMANN , Isabelle DEPATIE , Simon FOSTER , Christopher KIRK , Vincent FAUCHEUX
IPC分类号: H01M8/0258 , H01M8/2483 , H01M8/1007 , H01M8/04119
CPC分类号: H01M8/0258 , H01M8/006 , H01M8/04089 , H01M8/04156 , H01M8/04201 , H01M8/1007 , H01M8/2418 , H01M8/2483 , H01M8/2484 , H01M2008/1095
摘要: A fuel cell system with planar manifold having at least one fuel cell assembly with a first side and a second side; a plurality of anodes on the first side; a plurality of cathodes on the second side; ion-conducting electrolyte between the first and second sides; a fluid manifold assembly fluidly connected to the first side. In the planar manifold a first barrier layer provides at least one inlet port in fluid communication with a hydrogen source, and at least one outlet port to remove any unreacted hydrogen and byproducts from the first side; a plurality of conduit layers, on at least one of which is disposed one or more channels fluidly connected to the at least one inlet port and one of which is fluidly connected to the at least one outlet port; and, a second barrier layer disposed above the plurality of conduit layers containing a plurality of perforations affixed to the first side to supply hydrogen gas.
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