US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on March 3 for "Fuel cell system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,596, issued on March 3, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Fuel cell system" was invented by Sho Akabori (Wako, Japan), Shuto Maniwa (Wako, Japan) and Tomoyuki Inoue (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During startup of a fuel cell system, a control device adjusts opening degrees of a bypass valve, an inlet side stop valve, and an outlet side stop valve in a manner that the flow rate of an oxygen-containing gas in a bypass channel supplied from an oxygen-containing gas supply apparatus becomes larger than the flow rate in an oxygen-containing gas supply channel and an oxygen-containing off gas discharge channel. I...