US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 15 for "Fuel cell system and method for stopping power generation in fuel cell system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,515, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Fuel cell system and method for stopping power generation in fuel cell system" was invented by Takuma Sonobe (Wako, Japan), Ryoji Sakai (Wako, Japan), Sho Akabori (Wako, Japan) and Takuto Nakagawa (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell system performs a first control of stopping power generation of a fuel cell stack by closing a supply-side stop valve during power generation of the fuel cell stack, and a second control of driving an air pump by using surplus power generated in a moving body to thereby discard the surplus power. If a closed state...