Patent ID: 9705143
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: H01M,Y02B,Y02E

Claim:
1. A fuel cell device supplying electric power with an image pickup device which can detect a consumption power of the image pickup device, comprising: a fuel cell stack which outputs the electric power through a chemical reaction between fuel gas and oxidant gas; a purge valve which executes a purging operation of the fuel cell stack; a fuel cell system controller which controls the purge valve in accordance with the consumption power detected by the image pickup device; and a cell voltage detector which detects an output voltage of the fuel cell stack, wherein the fuel cell system controller determines whether or not to notify request of the purging operation based on the detected output voltage of the fuel cell stack, and wherein the fuel cell system controller decides whether or not an unoperated state of the image pickup device reaches a predetermined time, and, when deciding that the unoperated state reaches the predetermined time, causes the purge valve to execute the purging operation.