Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Self-sealing flow frame for flow battery stack
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Application No.: US14796463Application Date: 2015-07-10
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Publication No.: US09728791B2Publication Date: 2017-08-08
- Inventor: Michel J. McCluskey , John Ellsworth Gover, Jr. , Bryan P. Tipton , Kevin Anthony Weaver , Jennifer Lyne Kronick , David B. Berkey , Daniel R. Markiewicz
- Applicant: Concurrent Technologies Corporation
- Applicant Address: US PA Johnstown
- Assignee: Concurrent Technologies Corporation
- Current Assignee: Concurrent Technologies Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US PA Johnstown
- Agency: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
- Main IPC: H01M8/02
- IPC: H01M8/02 ; H01M8/18 ; H01M8/00 ; H01M8/04 ; H01M8/0273 ; H01M8/0276 ; H01M8/04276 ; H01M8/0284

Abstract:
A self-sealing flow frame is provided having a first frame component and a second frame component. Each frame component is provided with a tongue-and-groove configuration that when assembled forms a tessellation engagement, which creates the seal. When each frame component is assembled into a flow frame, with the inner surfaces facing towards each other, the tongue-and-groove arrangements create a seal profile that circumscribe constituent parts of a device within which the self-sealing flow frame is being employed. As the frame components are compressively secured and fastened together, a tessellation engagement of the seal profile forms the fluid seal. Fluids of the device are prevented from exfiltrating the device, and are contained within the self-sealing flow frame by the fluid seal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160036067A1 SELF-SEALING FLOW FRAME FOR FLOW BATTERY STACK Public/Granted day:2016-02-04
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