Holding apparatus for fuel cell gasket
AssigneeNissan Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsKei Ono, Masaya Yamamoto, Kenichi Toyoshima, Norifumi Horibe, Takayuki Terasaki
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Abstract
A holding apparatus for a fuel cell gasket has a support having a flat surface part which attracts the gasket and serves to stack a frame-shaped gasket on an outer circumference of an electrolyte membrane or a gas diffusion layer constituting a membrane electrode assembly on which a catalyst layer is disposed. The flat surface part has a frame-shaped recess corresponding to a shape of the gasket, and the recess is connected to an air-sucking section, with the gasket attracted by sucking air in the recess.
Claims7
A holding apparatus for disposing a fuel cell gasket which is to be stacked on an outer circumference of an electrolyte membrane or a gas diffusion layer which constitutes a membrane electrode assembly of a fuel cell and on which a catalyst layer is disposed, the gasket shaped to frame a shape of the outer circumference of the electrolyte membrane or the gas diffusion layer, the holding apparatus comprising:
- a support including a flat surface part which attracts the gasket,
- wherein the flat surface part has a recess connected to an air-sucking section, the recess formed as a single continuous channel in the flat surface part that is shaped to correspond to a shape of the gasket, the depth of the channel being less than a thickness of the support,
- wherein the gasket is attracted by sucking air in the recess.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.