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Integrated fuel cell power module

US7314680B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 24, 2004
Grant dateJan 1, 2008
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Expiry dateNov 5, 2025

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02E60/50
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A fuel cell power system has at least one fuel cell stack assembly having a clamp mechanism for holding plates of the fuel cell stack together, a fuel supply and exhausting stream, an oxidant supply and exhausting stream, and at least one of a fuel cell stack cooling loop and a cogeneration heat exchanger. The cooling loop or the cogeneration heat exchanger has a stack of heat exchange plates held together with the plates of said fuel cell stack by the clamp mechanism.

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