Patent ID: 7491456
Filing Date: 2009-02-17
Classification: H01M,Y02E

Abstract:
1. A fuel cell assembly, which has a housing defining an electricity generation combustion chamber, and electricity generation/combustion means disposed within said housing, and in which a fuel gas and an oxygen-containing gas are supplied to said electricity generation/combustion means, and a combustion gas formed within said electricity generation/combustion chamber is discharged from said electricity generation/combustion chamber, wherein a heat exchanger having a first channel and a second channel is disposed on the inner side of at least one wall of said housing, said combustion gas is discharged from an interior of said electricity generation/combustion chamber through said first channel of said heat exchanger, and one of said oxygen-containing gas and said fuel gas is supplied to said electricity generation/combustion means through said second channel of said heat exchanger, and wherein reforming means is disposed within said electricity generation/combustion chamber, said fuel gas is supplied to said electricity generation/combustion means through said reforming means, and said oxygen-containing gas is supplied to said electricity generation/combustion chamber through said second channel.