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Granted Patent B2
US 12706319 · App. 18/438,844 · Granted Aug 11, 2026

Hydrogen supply device

Inventors: Ryota Iwasaki (Okazaki, JP); Yoshifumi Kawakami (Toyota, JP); Tomoyuki Matsuo (Toyota, JP); Tomohiro Nakano (Nagoya, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
H01M8/04776H01M8/04029H01M8/04201H01M8/04373
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Patent No.
US 12706319
App. No.
18/438,844
Granted
Aug 11, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

It includes a heater, a vaporizer, a circulation flow path for circulating a heat medium between the heater and the vaporizer, a circulation pump, and a control unit, and the control unit is supplied with hydrogen gas flowing out from the vaporizer. The output of the power unit to be output and the temperature of the heat medium flowing out from the vaporizer are input, and the drive duty command value of the circulation pump is calculated based on the temperature of the heat medium flowing out from the vaporizer and the output of the hydrogen engine, and the circulation pump is driven based on the calculated drive duty command value.

Claims (16)

1 . A hydrogen supply device comprising:

a heater that heats a heating medium;

a vaporizer that vaporizes liquid hydrogen into a hydrogen gas using the heated heating medium;

a circulation flow path that circulates the heating medium between the heater and the vaporizer;

a circulation pump provided in the circulation flow path to pump the heating medium; and

a control unit that adjusts operation of the circulation pump, wherein the control unit is configured to:

receive an output of a power device to which the hydrogen gas flowing out of the vaporizer is supplied and a temperature of the heating medium flowing out of the vaporizer;

calculate a drive duty command value for the circulation pump based on the temperature of the heating medium flowing out of the vaporizer and the output of the power device; and

drive the circulation pump based on the calculated drive duty command value.

2 . The hydrogen supply device according to claim 1 , wherein the control unit is further configured to:

calculate a base drive duty for the circulation pump based on the temperature of the heating medium flowing out of the vaporizer;

calculate a correction coefficient based on the output of the power device; and

calculate the drive duty command value by multiplying the base drive duty by the correction coefficient.

3 . The hydrogen supply device according to claim 2 , wherein the control unit is further configured to:

calculate the base drive duty such that the base drive duty becomes smaller as the temperature of the heating medium flowing out of the vaporizer becomes higher; and

calculate the correction coefficient such that the correction coefficient becomes larger as the output of the power device becomes larger.