Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fuel cell and gas separator for fuel cell
- Patent Title (中): 燃料电池用燃料电池和气体分离器
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Application No.: US13354675Application Date: 2012-01-20
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Publication No.: US08257880B2Publication Date: 2012-09-04
- Inventor: Yoshinori Yamamoto , Toshiyuki Suzuki , Haruyuki Aono , Junichi Shirahama
- Applicant: Yoshinori Yamamoto , Toshiyuki Suzuki , Haruyuki Aono , Junichi Shirahama
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota-shi
- Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota-shi
- Agency: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP
- Priority: JP2007-305732 20071127
- Main IPC: H01M8/04
- IPC: H01M8/04 ; H01M2/38

Abstract:
In at least one of flow distribution areas 35 provided on a separator 15, plurality of first projections 46 formed in a region corresponding to a first section (parted regions 32a and 32c) of a center area (including parted regions 32a through 32c) having a relatively high flow rate of a first fluid (refrigerant) are designed to have a larger diameter of a cross section than plurality of first projections 46 formed in a region corresponding to a second section (parted region 32b) of the center area having a relatively low flow rate of the first fluid. This arrangement effectively attains a substantially uniform flow rate distribution of a fluid in a fluid flow path formed on a separator, which is configured to have concavo-convex structures formed in a mutually reversed relation on two opposed sides thereof.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120115051A1 FUEL CELL AND GAS SEPARATOR FOR FUEL CELL Public/Granted day:2012-05-10
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