Patent ID: 7690458

Claim:
A control apparatus for a vehicle-mounted fuel cell power generation system, comprising: prediction means for predicting a possibility of collision of a vehicle; stop means for stopping the vehicle-mounted fuel cell power generation system; electricity storage means for storing an electric power generated by a fuel cell of the vehicle-mounted fuel cell power generation system; a load that consumes an electric power, wherein the load is a motor for driving the vehicle; disconnection means for electrically disconnecting the load and the electricity storage means from each other; and detection means for detecting a collision of the vehicle, wherein the stop means stops the vehicle-mounted fuel cell power generation system if the prediction means determines that the possibility of collision is high, wherein an amount of fuel gas in at least one of the fuel cell and a gas supplying passage via which the fuel gas is supplied to the fuel cell is forcibly reduced prior to a collision, and wherein if the detection means detects a collision of the vehicle, the disconnection means electrically disconnects the load and the electricity storage means from each other.