Patent ID: 11909079
Assignee: ALAKAI TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B  Y | IPC B  H

Claim 26:
27. An oxygen delivery system augmenting oxygen supply to one or more fuel cells, comprising:
an oxygen delivery storage comprising an onboard oxidizer;
a mounting component;
one or more actuation or adjustment components;
one or more monitoring sensors or metering components networked to one or more autopilot control units each comprising a processor;
one or more supply line components in fluid communication with the oxygen delivery storage and in fluid communication with an oxygen flowfield plate, disposed in each of the one or more fuel cells, wherein the oxygen delivery system is connected to or integrated into a power generation subsystem comprising the one or more fuel cells and delivers oxygen in replacement of or in combination with to gathered and/or compressed ambient air supplied to an air inlet and/or an inflow end of the oxygen flowfield plate of each of the one or more fuel cells, augmenting oxygen supplied to the one or more fuel cells and thereby supplying additional reactants used for electrical power generation;
the one or more fuel cells in fluid communication with one or more heat exchangers and comprising:
a hydrogen flowfield plate, an anode backing layer connected thereto and comprising an anode gas diffusion layer (AGDL) connected to an anode side catalyst layer that is further connected to an anode side of a proton exchange membrane (PEM) configured to contact and divide gaseous hydrogen (GH2) into protons and electrons;
the oxygen flowfield plate, a cathode backing layer connected thereto and comprising a cathode gas diffusion layer (CGDL) connected to a cathode side catalyst layer that is further connected to a cathode side of the PEM; and
an electrical circuit configured to collect electrons from the anode side catalyst layer and supply voltage and current to vehicle components;
wherein the oxygen delivery system is in fluid communication with intake components configured to gather and compress ambient air into compressed air that is supplied to the air inlet and the inflow end of the oxygen flowfield plate of each fuel cell of the one or more fuel cells, and wherein the oxygen delivery system and the one or more fuel cells are in fluid communication with one or more air filters and airflow meters to meter and control oxidizer input at each inlet to match inlet oxygen requirements of the one or more fuel cells based on a level of power being generated, atmospheric pressure and temperature.