Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to a system for operating a fuel cell system (22) and at least one sub-system (30) of the fuel cell system (22). According to the invention, these are arranged in a vehicle (10), wherein the energy for a drive train (12) of the vehicle (10) can be drawn both from the fuel cell system (22) and from an alternative energy store (26). The method comprises the following method steps: first, the number and duration of shut-down and/or stop phases of the vehicles (10) in a defined time interval in a first vehicle state (86) or in a second vehicle state (88) is determined based on vehicle state-specific learning functions (90, 112). Operating parameters of the fuel cell system (22) and of the at least one sub-system (30) of the fuel cell system (22) are then adjusted in dependence on the determined number and duration of shut-down and/or stop phases of the vehicle (10).

Abstract: A cooling module for an electrical energy storage system for an electric drive vehicle. The cooling module has an exchanger plate that is hollow on the inside so as to have, on the inside, a circulation chamber that is designed to contain a cooling liquid. The exchanger plate has: an inlet opening that is obtained through a front wall of the exchanger plate and is designed to allow the cooling liquid to flow into the circulation chamber, and an outlet opening that is obtained through a rear wall of the exchanger plate and is designed to allow the cooling liquid to flow out of the circulation chamber. The cooling module has a plurality of interface elements, which are placed inside the circulation chamber, are shaped like a wave, and are arranged in rows.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electrode feedthru assembly for an electronic device and method of manufacturing. The feedthru assembly includes a ferrule, an electrode assembly, and an elastomer. The ferrule includes a bore through which the electrode assembly is positioned. The electrode assembly includes an electrode wire attached to a crimp pin. The crimp pin includes a crimp terminal portion and a pin terminal portion, the crimp terminal portion crimped to the a portion of the electrode wire to form a connected portion of the electrode assembly. The elastomer is disposed in the bore of the ferrule between the ferrule and the electrode assembly. The elastomer is configured to electrically isolate the ferrule from the electrode assembly and to encapsulate at least the connected portion of the electrode assembly.

Abstract: A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell unit; first and second supply systems; a switching device; a switching control unit, when required power of the fuel cell unit is equal to or smaller than a threshold; an open circuit voltage obtaining unit; and a supply system control unit.

Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a plurality of power consuming devices, a secondary battery, a charge-discharge amount sensor, and a controller configured to control operations of the plurality of power consuming devices. An identification section of the controller is configured to execute a variation process of varying the operation command value of one of the plurality of power consuming devices and, in a second case where an absolute value of a difference between an amount of change in the actual amount of charge and discharge and an amount of change in the estimated amount of charge and discharge before and after execution of the variation process is greater than a second threshold, identify the power consuming device, for which the operation command value is varied, as the device to be identified.

Abstract: In a control device for a power converter converting electric power of a fuel cell stack, the power converter includes first and second reactors, a first switching element connected to the first reactor, and a second switching element connected to the second reactor. The second reactor is located closer to a cooling water discharge manifold than the first reactor. The control device configured to: set first and second duty cycles of the first and second switching element; and execute limit control in which, by controlling the setting of the first and second duty cycles, a second amount of heat generated by the second reactor due to a second current is limited to a value smaller than a first amount of heat generated by the first reactor due to a first current within a period of at least multiple ON-OFF cycles of the first and second switching elements.

Abstract: A fuel cell case includes: a casing portion provided with a through hole that communicates between an internal space for accommodating a fuel cell stack and outside of the casing portion; a lid portion attached to an outer surface of the casing portion by a first connection portion so as to close the through hole; and a cover portion arranged on the lid portion and attached to the outer surface of the casing portion. It is configured that at least one of the lid portion and the first connection portion is fractured when an internal pressure of the casing portion is increased to be equal to or higher than a predetermined pressure and that the cover portion remains to be attached to the casing portion even after at least one of the lid portion and the first connection portion is fractured.

Abstract: A fuel cell stack includes a reaction layer having a MEA, an anode separator having a gas channel formed at a first side facing the reaction layer and through which a first reactant gas flows, and a cooling channel formed at a second side and through which a coolant flows. The anode separator abuts the reaction layer. A cathode separator abuts anode separator so that a first side of the cathode separator covers the cooling channel. A porous structural unit has a partition wall protruding from the second side of the cathode separator and has a flow path for a second reactant gas to minimize a cooling temperature deviation and improve operational efficiency.

Abstract: An electric power supply system 100 comprises a battery 10 that generates heat by discharging an electric power, and a fuel cell system 20 that generates the electric power by fuel cells 21. The electric power supply system 100 supplies power to an electric load. The electric power supply system 100 determines whether or not a temperature of the battery 10 is equal to or less than a predetermined temperature, and when the temperature of the battery is equal to or less than the predetermined temperature, the electric power supply system 100 discharges the battery 10 to the fuel cell system 20.

Abstract: A fuel cell vehicle capable of determining, when a fuel cell vehicle collides with a rigid body, whether a stack is damaged by a visual observation at a low cost. A fuel cell vehicle includes: a fragile part configured to be located so as to come into contact with a side surface of the stack frame that is orthogonal to a direction in which cells in the stack are stacked, and be deformed when a preset collision force causing damage to a stack is applied; and a deformation part configured to form a part of the vehicle body, and be deformed and come into contact with the fragile part when a collision force is applied to the vehicle body.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a solid-state electrolyte including: providing a solvent; dissolving a precursor compound including lithium, a precursor compound including lanthanum, and a precursor compound including zirconium in the solvent to provide a precursor composition, wherein a content of lithium in the precursor composition is greater than a stoichiometric amount; spraying the precursor composition onto a heated substrate to form a film; and heat-treating the film at 300° C. to 800° C. to manufacture the solid state electrolyte, wherein the solid-state electrolyte includes Li(7-x)Alx/3La3Zr2O12 wherein 0?x?1, and wherein the solid state electrolyte is in a form a film having a thickness of 5 nanometers to 1000 micrometers.

Abstract: A vehicle is provided having a vehicle front end in which a fuel cell system which has a fuel cell stack is arranged, which full cell system is, at a cathode side, connected at least directly to an exhaust-gas line through which a fluid emerging from the fuel cell stack can be discharged from the vehicle front end. The exhaust-gas system comprises a sorption system for the adsorption of a liquid of the fluid emerging from the fuel cell stack. The invention furthermore relates to a method for treating a fluid of a fuel cell system, which has a fuel cell stack, in a vehicle.

Abstract: It is determined whether or not the absolute value |a_sd| of the acceleration in the stacking direction of the cells is equal to or greater than the threshold THa (step S10). If the determination result of the step S10 is positive, it is determined whether or not the condition in which the absolute value |a_sd| is equal to or greater than the threshold THa continues (step S12). If the determination result of the step S12 is positive, the control valve is closed (step S14).

Abstract: The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery 100 herein proposed is characterized by being manufactured by performing an initial charging and discharging treatment on an assembly, in which are accommodated in a battery case 80 an electrode body 40, and a nonaqueous electrolyte containing a compound expressed by a general formula: A+[PX6-2n(C2O4)n]?, the content of the compound being 1.1 mass % to 1.2 mass % when the total mass of the nonaqueous electrolyte is assumed to be 100 mass %.

Abstract: An electrode material for a lithium ion secondary battery of the present invention includes an electrode active material represented by LiFexMn1-w-x-yMgyAwPO4 and a carbonaceous film coating a surface of the electrode active material, a particle diameter D10 of secondary particles is 0.5 ?m or more, a particle diameter D90 of the secondary particles is 25 ?m or less, and a ratio (O/I) of an average value of thicknesses I of the carbonaceous film on the surfaces of the primary particles in a range of 0.3 ?m or less from a center of the secondary particle at 300 measurement points to an average value of thicknesses O of the carbonaceous film on the surfaces of the primary particles in a range of 0.3 ?m or less from an outermost surface of the secondary particle at 300 measurement points is 0.85 or more and less than 1.00.

Abstract: A connector structure has a first connector unit including a first connector and a first terminal, and a second connector unit including a second connector and a second terminal. The second connector unit has a locating pin and an insertion hole into which the locating pin is inserted. In the connector structure, the first connector and the first terminal, and the second connector and the second terminal are brought into a connectible state when the locating pin is inserted into the insertion hole.

Abstract: A secondary battery comprises an electrode assembly comprising radical units in which first and second electrodes are alternately laminated with a separator therebetween and a separation film surrounding the radical units to be repeatedly laminated, wherein the electrode assembly comprises a protection unit laminated on an outermost separation film disposed on the uppermost end or lowermost end of the separation film, the protection unit has a structure comprising a second protection electrode, a separator, and a first protection electrode which are successively laminated from the outermost separation film disposed on the uppermost end or lowermost end of the electrode assembly, the second protection electrode has a cross-sectional coating structure comprising a second collector and a second electrode active material portion coated with a second electrode active material on an inner surface of the second collector, and the inner surface is a surface facing a center of the electrode assembly.

Abstract: A fuel cell system is equipped with a fuel cell unit that is composed of a plurality of fuel cells including a first fuel cell and a second fuel cell, a first supply device and a second supply device that supply reactive gas to the first fuel cell and the second fuel cell respectively, and a control device that controls running of the first fuel cell and the second fuel cell and operation of the first supply device and the second supply device. The control device suspends electric power generation by the first fuel cell and drives the first supply device to hold an opening circuit voltage of the first fuel cell within a target range, and suspends electric power generation by the second fuel cell and stops driving the second supply device when an output P required of the fuel cell unit is equal to 0.

Abstract: A method for controlling a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that includes connecting two non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries in series and setting the discharge cutoff voltage to 3.4 V to 4.6 V.

Abstract: A battery pack for an electric vehicle or a hybrid vehicle may include a housing, a stack of battery cells disposed within the housing, and a cooling subassembly. The housing typically holds the cell stack together, and the cooling subassembly typically cools the cell stack to prevent damage to the battery cells and to maintain the performance of the battery cells. The cooling subassembly may include a cold plate defining a liquid flow channel and one or more thermoelectric devices (TEDs) that are operable to cool the cell stack when current is supplied thereto. Heat spreaders may be employed within the battery pack, and exemplary configurations of components to thermally and mechanically couple the cooling subassembly are described.