US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Jan. 13 for "Thermal management system and method for fuel cell vehicle having a plurality of fuel-cell stacks" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,625, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Thermal management system and method for fuel cell vehicle having a plurality of fuel-cell stacks" was invented by Hassan Farhat (Dearborn, Mich.), Ravi Gopal (Novi, Mich.) and Yixin Yao (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiple fuel cell thermal management system controls a proportional mixing valve, heat exchanger bypass valves, fan speeds, and pump speeds of respective coolant circuits and associated fuel-cell stacks to operate the stacks independently or in combination. When vehicle wheel loads are low or in applications wit...