摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel storage and a fuel cell used as a power supply of a portable electronic apparatus such as a cellular phone, a laptop or a PDA. <P>SOLUTION: Each of this fuel storage and this fuel cell includes: a fuel tank part 10 having a waste fuel recovery port part 14 for storing a liquid fuel F; a liquid fuel discharge part 20 having a check valve mounted at a tip thereof; and a liquid fuel pressing mechanism 30; and is so structured that the fuel cell F is pressed forward by the liquid fuel pressing mechanism 30; a certain quantity thereof is supplied to the liquid fuel discharge part 20; a certain quantity of the liquid fuel F is discharged from the liquid fuel discharge part 20; a space part 15 of the fuel tank 10 made by the pressing mechanism 30 is structured as a waste fuel recovery tank of a used fuel consumed by a fuel cell body. The liquid fuel can efficiently and quantitatively be supplied to the cell; and the used fuel can simply and automatically be recovered without separately installing a waste fuel recovery tank. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI |