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H01M 8/04 (2006.01) H01M 8/24 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2579308
Disclosed is a gas-inlet pressure adjustment structure for a flow field plate of a fuel cell stack. At least one gas inlet opening, at least one gas outlet opening, and a plurality of channels are defined in a central zone of the flow field plate. A membrane electrode assembly is stacked over the central zone. The channels are of a parallel arrangement and each having a reduced open end and an expanded open end, the reduced open end having a cross-sectional area smaller than that of the expanded open end. The reduced open end communicates the gas inlet opening through which a reaction gas is supplied to the flow field plate. Water generated by chemical reaction occurring inside the flow field plate and attached to a surface of the gas channel by surface tension is expelled out of the channel by a force caused by a pressure difference induced in the reaction gas, which is supplied through the gas inlet opening and flows in sequence through the reduced open end, the channel, and the expanded open end and eventually discharges through the gas outlet opening.
Hsiao Feng-Hsiang
Hsu Yao-Shen
Kao Mike Pen-Mu
Yang Jefferson Y. S.
Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies Ltd.
Battison Williams Dupuis
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