Patent ID: 8153312
Filing Date: 2012-04-10
Classification: H01M,Y02B,Y02E

Abstract:
1. A fuel cell system, comprising: a fuel cell body to generate electrical energy by using a reaction of hydrogen and oxygen; a reformer to generate a reformed gas containing the hydrogen by reforming a fuel and supplying the reformed gas to the fuel cell body; a case member to encase the fuel cell body and the reformer; a refrigeration unit attached to the case member and including a first body and a second body; a fuel tank arranged within the first body to store the fuel in a partially liquefied state, to supply the fuel to the reformer and to cool air within the first body by latent heat of vaporization of the fuel within the fuel tank; the second body to receive and store the air from the first body that has been cooled by the latent heat of vaporization of the fuel in the fuel tank.