US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Oct. 27 for "Electrochemical hydrogen compression system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,507, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Electrochemical hydrogen compression system" was invented by Ko Shimizu (Wako, Japan) and Hayato Daimon (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrochemical hydrogen compression system is equipped with a control device that controls an electrical power source device, a hydrogen supply valve, a pathway connector, and a water supply device. The control device, upon receiving an operation start command, causes liquid water to be supplied from a water source to a hydrogen compression stack until a predetermined water supply period has elapsed. Thereafter, th...