Abstract
Recently, the need of mobile compressors with portability, silence and high efficiency are strongly required for pneumatic actuators, while conventional pressure sources generated by air compressors are large, heavy, noisy, and low-efficient. This paper proposes a new mobile pressure control system using reversible chemical reactions. This report shows its basic mechanism and basic experiments using the first prototype, which show a big possibility of this new idea. This device consists of a PEM fuel cell and a current controller is able to change the internal pressure with electric current. In addition, we have developed a pressure control method by electrical current.
