ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,845, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).
"Fuel cell system having active housing purging" was invented by Kurtus Hancock (Hamburg, Germany) and Nikolaus Soukup (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell system including a fuel cell stack having cathode and anode sides, a housing surrounding the fuel cell stack, a housing purging air inlet, an air-conveying installation disposed on the housing purging air inlet, a housing purging air outlet, an oxidation catalyst, a temperature sensor, and a control unit. The air-conveying installation continuously directs an airflow into the...