Invention Application
- Patent Title: Method for producing membrane electrode assembly
- Patent Title (中): 膜电极组件的制造方法
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Application No.: US10221720Application Date: 2002-09-12
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Publication No.: US20030114297A1Publication Date: 2003-06-19
- Inventor: Mee-Nam Shinn , Byung-Sun Hong , Ho-Suk Kim
- Priority: KR2001-9533 20010224; KR2001-50734 20010822
- Main IPC: B01J031/00
- IPC: B01J031/00

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA) which significantly enhances power density as well as structural reliability and method for producing the same. More specifically, it relates to the Membrane Electrode Assembly which has a plurality of protuberances and method for producing the same. The present invention involves making supporting bodies to have a plurality of protuberances on one side of the supporting bodies, forming a catalyst layer on one side of the supporting bodies having the protuberances, interposing a polymer-electrolyte-membrane between the supporting bodies, aligning the supporting bodies for the protuberances to engage each other; and hot-pressing the aligned supporting bodies. The present invention can increase the area of a three-phase boundary in which oxidation-reduction reaction of hydrogen and oxygen occurs and decrease resistance to ion conduction; consequently fuel cells have the characteristic of a large output of power density.
Public/Granted literature
- US07094489B2 Method for producing membrane electrode assembly Public/Granted day:2006-08-22
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