Hydrogen consumption system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025174689-A1
Application number	US-202418901272-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 30, 2024
Priority date	Nov 28, 2023
Publication date	May 29, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

To provide a hydrogen consumption system capable of suppressing the generation of emission sound at the time of separation of a hydrogen tank, which is unlikely to cause defects. Detachable hydrogen tank, a fuel cell using hydrogen from the hydrogen tank as a fuel, connecting the hydrogen tank and the fuel cell, a pipe through which hydrogen flows, the opening and closing valve provided in the pipe, and a control device, when desorption of the hydrogen tank, the control device closes the on-off valve, the pressure in the pipe to calculate the amount of hydrogen consumed by the power generation of the fuel cell until less than 1 MPa, the current demand value of the fuel cell from the amount of hydrogen consumed, and, the current upper limit value of the fuel cell is calculated, when the actual current value is greater than the current upper limit value, the current request value performs control for changing to be equal to or less than the current upper limit value.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A hydrogen consuming system comprising:
a detachable hydrogen tank; a fuel cell using hydrogen from the hydrogen tank as a fuel; piping connecting the hydrogen tank and the fuel cell, the hydrogen flowing through the piping, an on-off valve provided with the piping; and a control device, wherein when the hydrogen tank is separated,
the control device closes the on-off valve, and calculates hydrogen consumption caused by generation of electricity by the fuel cell until pressure in the piping is lower than 1 MPa; calculates, from the hydrogen consumption, a required current value and an upper limit current value for the fuel cell; and if an actual current value is higher than the upper limit current value, changes the required current value to be at most the upper limit current value.

2 . The hydrogen consuming system according to claim 1 , wherein the control device compares an estimated pressure at which the fuel cell is deficient in hydrogen, and an actual pressure in the piping, and if the actual pressure is at most the estimated pressure, stops the generation of electricity by the fuel cell.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Fujimura Yoshikatsu
• Kaneko Keiichi
• Tomi Naoki
• Tonosako Tetsuya
• NAKASHIMA Tomoki
• Sugiura Koji
• Kato Kei

Classifications

• F17C2250/043

  Pressure · CPC title

• F17C2221/012

  Hydrogen · CPC title

• F17C2205/0302

  Fittings, valves, filters, or components in connection with the gas storage device · CPC title

• H01M8/04895

  Current · CPC title

• H01M8/04201

  Reactant storage and supply, e.g. means for feeding, pipes · CPC title