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US 11,145,877 B2Granted
Fuel cell
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNobuaki Nonoyama, Norishige Konno, Masayuki Ito
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Abstract
A fuel cell includes: an electrolyte membrane; first and second catalyst layers respectively formed on first and second surface of the electrolyte membrane; and a separator disposed opposite to the electrolyte membrane with respect to the first catalyst layer.
Claims10
A fuel cell comprising:
- an electrolyte membrane;
- first and second catalyst layers respectively formed on first and second surfaces of the electrolyte membrane;
- and
- a separator disposed opposite to the electrolyte membrane with respect to the first catalyst layer, wherein
- the separator includes flow path grooves through which reaction gas flows between the separator and the first catalyst layer,
- the flow path grooves include:
- wavy grooves wavily extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction;
- and
- first and second end grooves between which the wavy grooves are located in the second direction,
- the first catalyst layer includes first and second edges facing each other in the second direction,
- the first and second end grooves are respectively adjacent to the first and second edges of the first catalyst layer in the second direction,
- the first and second end grooves respectively extend in the first direction within first and second regions,
- the first and second regions extend in the first direction,
- each width of the first and second regions in the second direction is smaller than each amplitude of the wavy grooves, and
- each width of the first and second end grooves in the second direction is constant along the first direction and is smaller than each amplitude of the wavy grooves.
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