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FUEL CELL OUTPUT CHARACTERISTIC ESTIMATION APPARATUS AND OUTPUT CHARACTERISTIC ESTIMATION METHOD, FUEL CELL SYSTEM AND VEHICLE HAVING THE SAME, AND FUEL CELL OUTPUT CONTROL METHOD AND DATA STORAGE MEDIUM

Published 30 May 2002 · application patented

Assignee: Toyota Motor

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Inventors: Tetsuhiro Ishikawa, Kouta Manabe, Hiroshi Sugiura, Nobuo Watanabe · Examiner: John S. Maples

Application
9990264
filed 23 Nov 2001
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US 20020064697 A1
published 30 May 2002
Patent
US 6,818,337
granted 16 Nov 2004
30 May 2002
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H01M8/04
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Tetsuhiro Ishikawa
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Abstract

An output characteristic of a fuel cell is estimated by detecting an output current of the fuel cell and a voltage between terminals of the fuel cell, and then estimating the output characteristic of the fuel cell on the basis of the detected output current and the detected voltage between the terminals, and a basic output characteristic of the fuel cell.

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IPC · International Patent Classification
Section H — Electricity
  • H01M8/04
USPC · US Patent Classification
429/23429/22429/25429/24429/13

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