US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on March 17 for "Fuel cell system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,213, issued on March 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Fuel cell system" was invented by Tomoyuki Inoue (Wako, Japan), Ryoji Sakai (Wako, Japan) and Yuto Nakatani (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During startup of a fuel cell system, feed forward control is performed to increase the rotation number of an electric auxiliary device (compressor) to a modified steady state rotation number while maintaining a steady state rotation acceleration rate of the electric auxiliary device. In this manner, the overshoot amount is suppressed to an allowable overshoot amount. Otherwise, feed forward control is performed ...