Patent ID: 11929529
Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A fuel cell system comprising:
a fuel cell;
a fuel storage unit configured to store raw fuel;
a fuel flow passage connected to the fuel storage unit, the fuel flow passage comprising a fuel rail;
a fuel processing unit configured to produce fuel gas for the fuel cell by processing the raw fuel;
a combustor configured to produce combustion gas by combusting the raw fuel;
a first injection device mounted on the fuel rail at a first location and configured to receive the raw fuel from the fuel rail and to supply the raw fuel to the fuel processing unit,
a second injection device mounted on the fuel rail at a second location upstream of the first location and configured to receive the raw fuel from the fuel rail and to supply the raw fuel to the combustor;
a first combustion gas line configured to provide the combustion gas from the combustor to the fuel processing unit to heat the fuel processing unit; and
a second combustion gas line configured to exhaust the combustion gas from the fuel processing unit separately from the fuel gas produced by the fuel processing unit.