US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Sept. 8 for "Method of controlling a cooling fan for a fuel cell stack" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,802, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of controlling a cooling fan for a fuel cell stack" was invented by Wook Hyun Han (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a cooling fan can maximize available stack power through optimal duty control of the cooling fan by considering deterioration of a fuel cell stack. The method includes determining whether a duty map update condition is satisfied based on a state variable for cooling fan control; when the duty map update condition is satisfied, determining available power ...