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Patent Inventor Names
Hisayoshi Oshima0
Kunio Okamoto0
Date of Patent
August 26, 2008
0Patent Application Number
109680310
Date Filed
October 20, 2004
0Patent Primary Examiner
Patent abstract
A fuel cell system includes a windshield washer container 1 storing windshield washer fluid, a permeable membrane unit 2 provided inside the windshield washer container 1, and a fuel cell 11. The permeable membrane unit 2 has the capability of extracting methanol from the windshield washer fluid. The extracted methanol is directly used as the fuel for the fuel cell 11. The windshield washer container 1 has the size comparable with or less than that of a conventional windshield washer container.
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