Fuel cell stack

Abstract

A fuel cell stack is provided which includes at least a fuel cell stack body with a plurality of unit fuel cells, wherein each unit fuel cell includes a bipolar plate and a membrane electrode assembly, which are alternatingly stacked in a stacking direction, a first and second terminal plate sandwiching the fuel cell stack body, wherein the first and second terminal plate are adapted to collect the electric energy generated by the fuel cell stack body, a first and second end plate which sandwich the first and second terminal plate, and a housing, wherein the housing includes at least a bottom plate, a stack enclosure configured to cover the side faces of the fuel cell stack, and a top plate, wherein the first end plate is configured as the bottom plate of the housing and is provided with at least one protruding connection element which protrudes laterally from the first end plate and is configured to connect the stack enclosure to the first end plate.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.