Patent ID: 8637201
Filing Date: 2014-01-28
Classification: H01M,Y02E,Y02T

Abstract:
1. A cooling system comprising: a fuel cell; a cooling circuit configured to circulate a coolant medium to cool the fuel cell; an air conditioning circuit configured to circulate the coolant medium, the air conditioning circuit having a heat exchanger to execute heat exchange between the coolant medium and air to be sent to a room; a switching unit configured to switch between a connected state and a disconnected state, wherein in the connected state the coolant medium flows from the cooling circuit to the air conditioning circuit, and then the coolant medium having passed through the heat exchanger flows to the cooling circuit, and in the disconnected state a flow of a coolant medium between the cooling circuit and the air conditioning circuit is blocked; and a controller programmed to control operation of the cooling system, wherein when the controller switches a state of the cooling system from the disconnected state to the connected state, irrespective of conditions in the cooling system, the controller executes operation of the cooling system in a flow rate control mode whereby a ratio (L