To provide a vehicular fuel cell allowing effective warming-up of the fuel cell in stopping it, and capable of reducing its starting time, and of preventing usage stop due to freeze.
This vehicular fuel cell equipped with a piping system associated with a cooling system, an air system, a hydrogen system and the like is provided with a warming-up system for a stack body of the fuel cell. The fuel cell is characterized by that the warming-up system is equipped with a heat insulation box for housing at least a part of the stack body and the piping system of the fuel cell in its inside, and has a vehicular air conditioner incorporated; and the air warmed by a heat exchanger provided for a heat pump cycle of the air conditioner is supplied to the heat insulation box.
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Yukihiko Takeda
Akira Yamanaka
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