Patents by Inventor Akiji Andou

Akiji Andou has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Fuel cell system
    Patent number: 6638653
    Abstract: To provide the fuel cell system, which can prevents the imperfect combustion of the fuel gas in combustor caused by shortage of the air exhausted from the fuel cell so that the harmful components is not contained in the exhausted gas, and can prevents the decreasing of the cell voltage by enabling drainage of the produced water from fuel cell certainly. A flow rate controller 8 is provided in the position between the air compressor 4 and the fuel cell 1 of the air supply line 6. The control unit CU is connected to the air supply line 6, and set the openings of the flow rate controller 8 as temporally wide, and a flow rate of the air supplied to the fuel cell is increased for a predetermined period of time. Then, set the opening of the flow rate controller 8 as gradually narrow, and the flow rate of the air supplied to the fuel cell is decreased gradually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akiji Andou, Nobutaka Nakajima, Yasunori Kotani, Masaaki Sakano
  • Fuel cell system
    Publication number: 20020045080
    Abstract: To provide the fuel cell system, which can prevents the imperfect combustion of the fuel gas in combustor caused by shortage of the air exhausted from the fuel cell so that the harmful components is not contained in the exhausted gas, and can prevents the decreasing of the cell voltage by enabling drainage of the produced water from fuel cell certainly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2001
    Publication date: April 18, 2002
    Applicant: HONDA GIKEN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akiji Andou, Nobutaka Nakajima, Yasunori Kotani, Masaaki Sakano