US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Sept. 1 for "Fuel cell charge air system and method" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,819, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Fuel cell charge air system and method" was invented by Richard William Kruiswyk (Dunlap, Ill.) and Christopher Dean Lusardi (Peoria, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell electric power system includes a fuel cell stack, and a charge air system including an intake air compressor, an exhaust turbine, and a flow control valve assembly. The flow control valve assembly includes at least one flow control valve rotatable in a valve housing to fluidly connect an exhaust inlet, selectively, to a turbine feed outlet via a variable flow area to adjust a torque...