公开(公告)号：US07052790B2

公开(公告)日：2006-05-30

申请号：US10169489

申请日：2001-10-18

申请人： Akinari Nakamura ,  Tatsuo Nakayama ,  Tetsuya Ueda ,  Masataka Ozeki

发明人： Akinari Nakamura ,  Tatsuo Nakayama ,  Tetsuya Ueda ,  Masataka Ozeki

IPC分类号： H01M8/04

CPC分类号： H01M8/04164 ,  H01M8/04029 ,  H01M8/04044 ,  H01M8/04052 ,  H01M8/0606 ,  H01M2250/405 ,  Y02B90/16

摘要： To avoid pressure variation in a cooling water channel, extend a life of an ion exchange resin used to maintain quality of cooling water and reduce power consumption by auxiliary machinery at low cost. There is provided a polymer electrolyte fuel cell, a cooling water tank, a cooling water channel, a cooling water pump, a heat exchanger, a fuel-side condenser and an oxidizer-side condenser that cool exhaust fuel gas and exhaust oxidizer gas discharged from the fuel cell to condense content water vapor, a condensed water tank that stores the water condensed in the fuel-side condenser and the oxidizer-side condenser, a water supply channel having a water supply pump for feeding the condensed water to the cooling water tank, and a water discharge channel for the cooling water tank.

摘要翻译： 为了避免冷却水通道中的压力变化，延长用于保持冷却水质量的离子交换树脂的寿命，并以低成本降低辅助机械的功耗。 提供冷却排出燃料气体和排出氧化剂气体的聚合物电解质燃料电池，冷却水箱，冷却水通道，冷却水泵，热交换器，燃料侧冷凝器和氧化剂侧冷凝器 所述燃料电池用于冷凝内容物水蒸汽，所述冷凝水箱存储在所述燃料侧冷凝器和所述氧化剂侧冷凝器中冷凝的水，供水通道，具有供水泵，用于将冷凝水供给到所述冷却水箱 和用于冷却水箱的排水通道。

公开(公告)号：US20050074644A1

公开(公告)日：2005-04-07

申请号：US10955516

申请日：2004-09-30

申请人： Tetsuya Ueda ,  Shinji Miyauchi ,  Akinari Nakamura

发明人： Tetsuya Ueda ,  Shinji Miyauchi ,  Akinari Nakamura

IPC分类号： H01M8/04 ,  H01M8/06 ,  H01M8/24

CPC分类号： H01M8/04089 ,  H01M8/04201 ,  H01M8/04231 ,  H01M8/0444 ,  H01M8/04679 ,  H01M8/04686 ,  H01M8/04753 ,  H01M8/04776 ,  H01M8/0618 ,  H01M8/2475

摘要： A fuel cell system is disclosed, comprising, within a package, a fuel cell stack; a hydrogen-rich gas supply means configured to supply a hydrogen-rich gas; a combustible gas detector configured to detect leakage of a combustible gas which is the hydrogen-rich gas or a raw fuel gas which is a raw material of the hydrogen-rich gas within the package; a combustible gas guide pipe through which the combustible gas is guided into the package; and a controller; wherein the controller is configured to inject the combustible gas intermittently through the combustible gas guide pipe, and to perform a self-diagnostic process as to whether or not the combustible gas detector is functioning properly.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种燃料电池系统，其包括在封装内的燃料电池堆; 富氢气体供给装置，其构造成供给富氢气体; 可燃气体检测器，被配置为检测作为所述富氢气体的可燃气体或作为所述富氢气体的原料的原料燃料气体在所述封装内的泄漏; 可燃气体引导管，可燃气体通过该导管引导到包装中; 和控制器; 其中所述控制器被配置成间歇地喷射所述可燃气体通过所述可燃气体导管，并且对所述可燃气体检测器是否正常工作进行自诊断处理。

公开(公告)号：US06420060B1

公开(公告)日：2002-07-16

申请号：US09572166

申请日：2000-05-17

申请人： Yoshiaki Yamamoto ,  Masataka Ozeki ,  Akinari Nakamura

发明人： Yoshiaki Yamamoto ,  Masataka Ozeki ,  Akinari Nakamura

IPC分类号： H01M804

CPC分类号： H01M8/04029 ,  H01M8/04014 ,  Y10S429/90

摘要： The present invention provides a fuel cell cogeneration system which can stably supply hot water at high temperature shortly after the system starts to operate. The cogeneration system comprises a solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell system for generating electric power and heat by reacting fuel gas with an oxidant gas, a cooling water circulating path for circulating cooling water for recovering heat generated by the fuel cell system, a storage tank for reserving hot water to be supplied to an external hot-water supply load, a heat exchanger for transferring heat recovered by the cooling water to water in the storage tank, and a heating path connected to the storage tank in order to pass water in the storage tank through the heat exchanger, the heating path having the heat exchanger, wherein a water inlet of the heating path and a water filling port for supplying water to the storage tank from the outside of the system are formed both at a lower part of the storage tank, and wherein a water outlet of the heating path and a hot-water supply port for supplying hot water in the storage tank to the external hot-water supply load are provided both at an upper part of the storage tank.

摘要翻译： 本发明提供一种能够在系统开始运转后不久稳定地供给高温热水的燃料电池热电联供系统。 热电联产系统包括固体聚合物电解质燃料电池系统，用于通过使燃料气体与氧化剂气体反应产生电力和热量;冷却水循环路径，用于循环冷却水以回收由燃料电池系统产生的热量;储罐，用于储存 供给外部热水供给负载的热水，将由冷却水回收的热量传递给储存箱内的水的热交换器，以及与储罐连接的加热路径，以使储存罐内的水通过 通过热交换器，具有热交换器的加热路径，其特征在于，在所述储罐的下部形成有从所述系统的外部向所述储罐供水的所述加热路径的入水口和供水口 并且其中设置有加热路径的出水口和用于将热水供应到外部热水供应负载的热水供应口两者 在储罐的上部。

公开(公告)号：US08486572B2

公开(公告)日：2013-07-16

申请号：US11708460

申请日：2007-02-21

申请人： Akinari Nakamura ,  Masataka Ozeki ,  Shinji Miyauchi ,  Tomonori Asou

发明人： Akinari Nakamura ,  Masataka Ozeki ,  Shinji Miyauchi ,  Tomonori Asou

IPC分类号： H01M8/02 ,  H01M8/06 ,  H01M8/18

CPC分类号： H01M8/04231 ,  H01M8/0258 ,  H01M8/04223 ,  H01M8/04228 ,  H01M8/0618 ,  H01M8/0675

摘要： A fuel cell power generation system includes a fuel gas generating means for generating a hydrogen-rich fuel gas from a source material having, as a main ingredient, a compound containing carbon and hydrogen; a source material supply source for supplying a source material to the fuel gas generating means; a fuel gas supply means for supplying the fuel gas from the fuel gas generating means to a fuel gas flow channel of a fuel cell at which channel a fuel electrode is placed; and a bypass means for supplying the source material from the source material supply source to the fuel gas flow channel, bypassing the fuel gas generating means. At least at one of time periods before start of and after end of power generation, the source material, as a displacement gas, is injected into the fuel gas flow channel of the fuel cell via the bypass means.

摘要翻译： 燃料电池发电系统包括：燃料气体发生装置，用于从作为主要成分的含有碳和氢的化合物的源材料产生富氢燃料气体; 用于将源材料供应到燃料气体发生装置的源材料供应源; 燃料气体供给装置，用于将来自燃料气体发生装置的燃料气体供应到燃料电池的放置通道的燃料电池的燃料气体流路; 以及旁路装置，用于将来自源材料供给源的源材料旁路到燃料气体生成装置的燃料气体流路。 至少在发电开始之前和之后的时间段中的一个时间段，作为置换气体的源材料经由旁路装置注入到燃料电池的燃料气体流动通道中。

公开(公告)号：US08241807B2

公开(公告)日：2012-08-14

申请号：US12439972

申请日：2007-09-21

申请人： Akinori Yukimasa ,  Masataka Ozeki ,  Hideo Ohara ,  Akinari Nakamura

发明人： Akinori Yukimasa ,  Masataka Ozeki ,  Hideo Ohara ,  Akinari Nakamura

IPC分类号： H01M8/04 ,  H01M2/12

CPC分类号： H01M8/04029 ,  F24D11/005 ,  F24H2240/10 ,  H01M8/04052 ,  H01M8/04358 ,  H01M8/04723 ,  H01M2250/405 ,  Y02B90/16

摘要： A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell (1) configured to generate electric power by a reaction between fuel and an oxidizing agent; a cooling passage (3) through which a first heat medium for cooling down the fuel cell (1) flows; a heat exchanger (5) disposed on the cooling passage (3); and an exhaust heat recovery passage (7) through which a second heat medium which exchanges heat with the first heat medium by the heat exchanger (5) flows, wherein a deceleration portion (7c) configured to reduce a flow velocity of the second heat medium and a bubble release portion (7d) configured to discharge bubbles in the deceleration portion (7c) to an outside of the exhaust heat recovery passage (7) are disposed on the exhaust heat recovery passage (7).

摘要翻译： 燃料电池系统包括：燃料电池（1），被配置为通过燃料和氧化剂之间的反应产生电力; 用于冷却燃料电池（1）的第一热介质流过的冷却通道（3） 设置在所述冷却通路（3）上的热交换器（5） 和排气热回收通路（7），利用热交换器（5）与第一热介质进行热交换的第二热介质流过的排气热回收通路（7），其中，减速部（7c）构成为减少第二热介质的流速 在排气热回收通路（7）上配置有将减速部（7c）中的气泡排出到排气热回收通路（7）的外部的气泡释放部（7d）。

公开(公告)号：US07951497B2

公开(公告)日：2011-05-31

申请号：US10542171

申请日：2004-07-26

申请人： Yoshikazu Tanaka ,  Takashi Nishikawa ,  Masataka Ozeki ,  Akinari Nakamura

发明人： Yoshikazu Tanaka ,  Takashi Nishikawa ,  Masataka Ozeki ,  Akinari Nakamura

IPC分类号： H01M8/04

CPC分类号： H01M8/04604 ,  H01M8/04223 ,  H01M8/04225 ,  H01M8/04302 ,  H01M8/04955 ,  H01M8/0612

摘要： A fuel cell system of the present invention comprises a fuel cell (13), a load value detecting means (16) configured to detect a load value of a load of electric power or heat which is generated by equipment (14) supplied with the electric power or the heat from the fuel cell system, a load value storage means (17) configured to store a history of the load value which is detected by the load value detecting means (16), a load value predicting means (18) configured to predict a load value which is going to be generated, based on the history of the load value, and to store the predicted load value as load value data, and scheduled start-up time of a fuel cell (13) is decided based on the load value data.

摘要翻译： 本发明的燃料电池系统包括燃料电池（13），负载值检测装置（16），其被配置为检测由提供有电的设备（14）产生的电力或热量负载的负载值 功率或来自燃料电池系统的热量，负载值存储装置（17），被配置为存储由负载值检测装置（16）检测的负载值的历史，负载值预测装置（18），被配置为 基于负载值的历史来预测将要生成的负载值，并将预测负载值存储为负载值数据，并且基于所述负载值数据来确定燃料电池（13）的计划启动时间 负载值数据。

公开(公告)号：US07811712B2

公开(公告)日：2010-10-12

申请号：US11632454

申请日：2005-10-17

申请人： Tetsuya Ueda ,  Hideo Ohara ,  Akinari Nakamura

发明人： Tetsuya Ueda ,  Hideo Ohara ,  Akinari Nakamura

IPC分类号： H01M8/04 ,  H01M8/06 ,  H01M8/18

CPC分类号： H01M8/0606 ,  H01M8/04014 ,  H01M8/04022 ,  H01M8/04179 ,  H01M8/04223 ,  H01M8/04231 ,  H01M8/04302 ,  H01M8/04303 ,  H01M8/04373 ,  H01M8/0444 ,  H01M8/04447 ,  H01M8/04492 ,  H01M8/04679 ,  H01M8/04746 ,  H01M8/04791 ,  H01M8/04955 ,  H01M8/0668 ,  H01M2008/1095

摘要： There is disclosed a fuel cell system according to the invention comprising; a material gas feeder (1); a reformer (3); a fuel cell (4); a combustor (5); communication passages (6A-6E); and a controller (20), wherein during a shutdown period of the fuel cell (4), the controller (20) determines whether the fuel cell system is in a normal condition where a shutdown operation of the fuel cell (4) is performed; and wherein if the controller (20) determines that the fuel cell system is not in the normal condition, the controller (20) controls the material gas feeder (1) to execute a material gas feed process before a next ignition of the combustor (5), the material gas feed process being performed such that the material gas is supplied to a hydrogen-containing gas flow path constituted by the reformer (3) and the communication passages (6A-6E) located between the reformer (3) and the combustor (5).

摘要翻译： 公开了根据本发明的燃料电池系统，包括： 材料气体供给器（1）; 改革者（3）; 燃料电池（4）; 燃烧器（5）; 连通通道（6A-6E）; 以及控制器（20），其中在所述燃料电池（4）的停机期间，所述控制器（20）确定所述燃料电池系统是否处于执行所述燃料电池（4）的关闭操作的正常状态; 并且其中如果所述控制器（20）确定所述燃料电池系统不处于正常状态，则所述控制器（20）控制所述原料气体供给器（1）在所述燃烧器（5）的下一个点火之前执行原料气体供给过程 ），进行原料气体供给处理，使得原料气体被供给到由重整器（3）和位于重整器（3）与燃烧器之间的连通路（6A-6E）构成的含氢气体流路 （5）。

公开(公告)号：US20100136450A1

公开(公告)日：2010-06-03

申请号：US12530932

申请日：2008-03-14

申请人： Akinori Yukimasa ,  Masataka Ozeki ,  Hideo Ohara ,  Akinari Nakamura

发明人： Akinori Yukimasa ,  Masataka Ozeki ,  Hideo Ohara ,  Akinari Nakamura

IPC分类号： H01M8/04 ,  H01M8/06

CPC分类号： H01M8/0618 ,  C01B3/384 ,  C01B3/48 ,  C01B2203/0233 ,  C01B2203/0283 ,  C01B2203/044 ,  C01B2203/0445 ,  C01B2203/047 ,  C01B2203/066 ,  C01B2203/0822 ,  C01B2203/0827 ,  C01B2203/1223 ,  C01B2203/1241 ,  C01B2203/1247 ,  C01B2203/16 ,  C01B2203/1604 ,  C01B2203/1619 ,  C01B2203/169 ,  H01M8/04089 ,  H01M8/04223 ,  H01M8/04225 ,  H01M8/04302 ,  H01M8/04373 ,  H01M8/0444 ,  H01M8/04559 ,  H01M8/04738 ,  H01M8/04753 ,  H01M8/04761 ,  H01M8/04776 ,  H01M8/0662 ,  H01M8/0668 ,  Y02P20/128

摘要： A fuel cell system of the present invention comprises a fuel cell (1) configured to generate electric power using a fuel gas, a fuel gas generator (2) configured to generate a fuel gas containing hydrogen using a raw material, a combustion burner (2a) configured to heat the fuel gas generator, a combustion fan (2b) configured to supply air to a combustion burner (2a), and a controller (101). The raw material is filled inside the fuel cell (1) before the fuel gas is supplied to the fuel cell. The controller (101) controls on-off valves (8, 9) to cause the fuel gas to branch to flow to a second path (R2) and to a fourth path (R4) when the fuel gas generated in the fuel gas generator (2) starts to be supplied to the fuel cell (1).

摘要翻译： 本发明的燃料电池系统包括燃料电池（1），其被配置为使用燃料气体发电;燃料气体发生器（2），其构造成使用原料生成含氢气的燃料气体;燃烧器（2a） ）构造成加热燃料气体发生器，配置成向燃烧器（2a）供应空气的燃烧风扇（2b）和控制器（101）。 在向燃料电池供给燃料气体之前，将原料填充在燃料电池（1）的内部。 当在燃料气体发生器中产生的燃料气体（101）和/或控制器（101）控制开关阀（8,9）使得燃料气体分支到第二路径（R2）和第四路径（R4） 2）开始供给燃料电池（1）。

公开(公告)号：US20100074838A1

公开(公告)日：2010-03-25

申请号：US12527306

申请日：2008-02-28

申请人： Akinari Nakamura ,  Yoshio Tamura ,  Masataka Ozeki ,  Hideo Ohara

发明人： Akinari Nakamura ,  Yoshio Tamura ,  Masataka Ozeki ,  Hideo Ohara

IPC分类号： C01B3/02 ,  H01M8/06 ,  C01B3/32

CPC分类号： H01M8/0618 ,  C01B3/384 ,  C01B3/48 ,  C01B2203/0233 ,  C01B2203/0283 ,  C01B2203/044 ,  C01B2203/047 ,  C01B2203/066 ,  C01B2203/0811 ,  C01B2203/0822 ,  C01B2203/0827 ,  C01B2203/1241 ,  C01B2203/1604 ,  C01B2203/169 ,  C01B2203/1695 ,  H01M8/04022 ,  H01M8/04776 ,  H01M8/04955 ,  H01M8/0631 ,  Y02P20/128

摘要： A hydrogen generator includes: a reformer (1) configured to generate a hydrogen-containing gas from a material gas; a combustor (2) configured to heat the reformer (1); a first gas supplying passage through which a gas discharged from the reformer (1) is supplied to the combustor (2) or a second gas supplying passage through which the material gas is supplied to the combustor (2); an ignitor (4) configured to carry out an ignition operation in the combustor (2); a pressure increasing device (17) configured to increase pressure of the material gas supplied to the reformer (1) or the combustor (2); a flow rate control valve (18) configured to control a flow rate of the material gas supplied to the reformer (1) or the combustor (2); and a controller (25), and in an ignition operation period of the ignitor (4), the controller (25) causes the pressure increasing device (17) to operate to supply the material gas to the combustor (2), and causes an opening degree of the flow rate control valve (18) to increase from an initial opening degree Us to a target opening degree Uc corresponding to a target material flow rate in the ignition operation period, the initial opening degree Us being smaller than the target opening degree Uc.

摘要翻译： 氢发生器包括：重构器（1），其被配置为从原料气体产生含氢气体; 构造成加热重整器（1）的燃烧器（2）; 将从重整器（1）排出的气体供给到燃烧器（2）的第一气体供给路径或向燃烧器（2）供给原料气体的第二气体供给路径; 构造成在燃烧器（2）中执行点火操作的点火器（4）; 增压装置（17），其构造成增加供给到重整器（1）或燃烧器（2）的原料气体的压力; 流量控制阀（18），被配置为控制供给到重整器（1）或燃烧器（2）的原料气体的流量; 和控制器（25），并且在所述点火器（4）的点火操作期间，所述控制器（25）使所述增压装置（17）进行动作以将所述原料气体供给到所述燃烧器（2） 流量控制阀（18）的开度从初始开度Us增加到与点火运转期间的目标材料流量对应的目标开度Uc，初始开度Us小于目标开度 Uc。

公开(公告)号：US20100047636A1

公开(公告)日：2010-02-25

申请号：US12439632

申请日：2007-09-21

申请人： Yoshio Tamura ,  Akinari Nakamura ,  Hideo Ohara ,  Masataka Ozeki

发明人： Yoshio Tamura ,  Akinari Nakamura ,  Hideo Ohara ,  Masataka Ozeki

IPC分类号： H01M8/04 ,  B01J19/00 ,  C01B3/02

CPC分类号： C01B3/384 ,  C01B3/48 ,  C01B2203/0233 ,  C01B2203/0283 ,  C01B2203/044 ,  C01B2203/047 ,  C01B2203/066 ,  C01B2203/0811 ,  C01B2203/0822 ,  C01B2203/0827 ,  C01B2203/1058 ,  C01B2203/1064 ,  C01B2203/107 ,  C01B2203/1076 ,  C01B2203/1609 ,  C01B2203/1628 ,  C01B2203/169 ,  H01M8/04022 ,  H01M8/04201 ,  H01M8/04223 ,  H01M8/04302 ,  H01M8/04303 ,  H01M8/04425 ,  H01M8/04686 ,  H01M8/04776 ,  H01M8/04955 ,  H01M8/0606 ,  H01M8/0618 ,  H01M8/0668 ,  Y02P20/128

摘要： A hydrogen generating apparatus of the present invention includes a controller (20) configured to, during a stop period, control a material gas feeding device (10) to feed a material gas to a gas passage which is located between the material gas feeding device (10) and a valve (16) to perform a maintaining process for maintaining a pressure in an interior of the gas passage at value which is not smaller than a first threshold which is an atmospheric pressure or larger. When the controller (20) detects there is an abnormality in the maintaining process, the controller (20) controls the material gas feeding device (10) and an ignition device (5A) to feed the material gas with an amount which is larger than an amount in a case where the controller detects there is no abnormality in the maintaining process, during a period which lapses from when the controller detects the abnormality until the ignition device starts an ignition operation in a start-up process.

摘要翻译： 本发明的氢发生装置包括控制器（20），其被配置为在停止期间控制原料气体供给装置（10），以将材料气体供给到位于材料气体供给装置（ 10）和阀（16），以执行用于将气体通道内部的压力保持在不小于大气压或更大的第一阈值的值的维持处理。 当控制器（20）检测到维护过程中存在异常时，控制器（20）控制原料气体供给装置（10）和点火装置（5A），以大于 在控制器从控制器检测到异常直到点火装置在启动过程中开始点火操作过去的时间段期间，控制器检测到维护处理中没有异常的情况。