Patent ID: 8182952
Filing Date: 2012-05-22
Classification: B60L,H01M,Y02E,Y02T

Abstract:
1. A fuel cell system comprising: a fuel cell; and a controller programmed to control the execution of a normal operation and a dry operation which decreases the water content of the fuel cell as compared with the normal operation, wherein the controller includes a stop instruction predicting section which predicts a system stop instruction for stopping the operation of the fuel cell system, and based on the prediction result of the stop instruction prediction section the controller is programmed to execute the dry operation before the system stop instruction so that the water content of the fuel cell is decreased at a time of the system stop instruction as compared with the normal operation in a case where it is predicted that the system stop instruction will be issued, and is programmed to continue the normal operation in a case where it is predicted that the system stop instruction will not be issued, wherein the system stop instruction is issued by the user's OFF operation of an ignition switch.