公开(公告)号：US20120315571A1

公开(公告)日：2012-12-13

申请号：US13579661

申请日：2011-11-24

申请人： Jun Matsumura ,  Yoichiro Tsuji

发明人： Jun Matsumura ,  Yoichiro Tsuji

IPC分类号： H01M4/88

CPC分类号： H01M8/1004 ,  H01M4/881 ,  H01M4/8814 ,  H01M4/8817 ,  H01M2008/1095 ,  Y02P70/56

摘要： According to a method for producing a catalyst-coated membrane in the present invention, in order to prevent a polymer electrolyte membrane 1 from being curled when catalyst ink is dried to form a catalyst layer 4a, a membrane-shape retaining film-assembly is prepared such that a shape retaining film 2 is attached on one surface of the polymer electrolyte membrane 1 so as to protrude from both sides of the polymer electrolyte membrane 1 in a width direction, and then the catalyst layer 4a is formed on another surface of the polymer electrolyte membrane 1.

摘要翻译： 根据本发明的催化剂涂膜的制造方法，为了防止在将催化剂油墨干燥形成催化剂层4a时聚合物电解质膜1发生卷曲，制作膜状保持膜组件 使得形成保持膜2在宽度方向上从聚合物电解质膜1的两侧突出地附着在高分子电解质膜1的一个表面上，然后在聚合物的另一个表面上形成催化剂层4a 电解质膜1。

公开(公告)号：US20120164553A1

公开(公告)日：2012-06-28

申请号：US13393617

申请日：2010-09-01

申请人： Miho Gemba ,  Yoichiro Tsuji ,  Masaki Yamauchi

发明人： Miho Gemba ,  Yoichiro Tsuji ,  Masaki Yamauchi

IPC分类号： H01M8/10 ,  H01M4/86 ,  H01M8/00 ,  H01M8/04

CPC分类号： H01M8/1007 ,  H01M8/0239 ,  H01M8/0243 ,  H01M8/0245 ,  H01M8/0258 ,  H01M8/0273 ,  H01M8/241 ,  H01M2008/1095 ,  Y02E60/521 ,  Y02P70/56

摘要： Provided is a gas diffusion layer for a fuel cell, wherein a reactive gas passage groove for distributing a reactive gas is formed in one principal surface of the gas diffusion layer, and a reinforcing member is provided along the reactive gas passage grooves. Thus, the deformation of the gas diffusion layer due to a fastening pressure can be suppressed to improve the power generation performance.

摘要翻译： 提供一种用于燃料电池的气体扩散层，其中在气体扩散层的一个主表面上形成用于分配反应性气体的反应性气体通道槽，沿着反应性气体通道槽设置加强构件。 因此，可以抑制由紧固压力引起的气体扩散层的变形，提高发电性能。

公开(公告)号：US08182958B2

公开(公告)日：2012-05-22

申请号：US12524835

申请日：2008-01-29

申请人： Takeou Okanishi ,  Atsushi Nogi ,  Yoichiro Tsuji

发明人： Takeou Okanishi ,  Atsushi Nogi ,  Yoichiro Tsuji

IPC分类号： H01M8/10

CPC分类号： H01M8/0273 ,  H01M8/1004 ,  H01M8/1053 ,  H01M8/1062 ,  H01M8/1065 ,  Y02P70/56

摘要： A membrane membrane-reinforcement-member assembly, membrane catalyst-layer assembly, membrane electrode assembly, and polymer electrolyte fuel cell are provided, which are so configured as to ensure sufficient durability and a cost reduction in unit cells and be suited for mass production. To this end, a membrane membrane-reinforcement-member assembly (20) of a membrane catalyst-layer assembly (30) provided in an MEA (5) of a cell (100) has a polymer electrolyte membrane (1), a pair of first membrane reinforcement members (10a) and a pair of second membrane reinforcement members (10b) which members (10a), (10b) are embedded in the polymer electrolyte membrane (1) such that their main surfaces are not exposed therefrom. The first and second membrane reinforcement members (10a), (10b) are embedded in a parallelogrammatic fashion so as to overlap each other in the four corners of the polymer electrolyte membrane (1) when viewed in a thickness direction of the polymer electrolyte membrane.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种膜增强件组件，膜催化剂层组件，膜电极组件和聚合物电解质燃料电池，其被构造成确保单元电池的足够的耐久性和成本降低并且适合于批量生产。 为此，设置在电池（100）的MEA（5）中的膜催化剂层组件（30）的膜增强部件组件（20）具有聚合物电解质膜（1），一对 第一膜增强构件（10a）和一对第二膜增强构件（10b），其中构件（10a），（10b）嵌入在聚合物电解质膜（1）中，使得它们的主表面不暴露于其中。 当在聚合物电解质膜的厚度方向上观察时，第一和第二膜增强构件（10a），（10b）以平行四边形方式被嵌入，以便在聚合物电解质膜（1）的四个角部彼此重叠。

公开(公告)号：US08158294B2

公开(公告)日：2012-04-17

申请号：US12160618

申请日：2007-01-12

申请人： Shinsuke Takeguchi ,  Yoichiro Tsuji

发明人： Shinsuke Takeguchi ,  Yoichiro Tsuji

IPC分类号： H01M8/04 ,  H01M8/10 ,  H01M8/24

CPC分类号： H01M8/04007 ,  H01M8/0263 ,  H01M8/0267 ,  H01M8/04082 ,  H01M8/241 ,  H01M8/242 ,  H01M8/2457 ,  H01M8/2483 ,  H01M2008/1095

摘要： Provided is a fuel cell system which is capable of suppressing deterioration in the performance and durability of a fuel cell stack or restoring deterioration in performance of the fuel cell stack. In addition, provided is a method of operating the fuel cell system. The fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack in which a gas passage for an anode and a cathode and a heat transmission medium passage have a structure in which inlet-side regions of each of the passages substantially overlap with each other. Outlet-side regions of the anode gas passage, the cathode gas passage, and the heat transmission medium passage substantially overlap with each other as viewed from a direction in which the unit cells are stacked. The fuel cell system also includes at least one anode gas flow inverting device and a cathode gas flow inverting device.

摘要翻译： 提供一种燃料电池系统，其能够抑制燃料电池堆的性能和耐久性的劣化或恢复燃料电池堆的性能劣化。 此外，提供了操作燃料电池系统的方法。 燃料电池系统包括燃料电池堆，其中用于阳极和阴极的气体通道和传热介质通道具有其中每个通道的入口侧区域彼此基本重叠的结构。 阳极气体通道，阴极气体通道和传热介质通路的出口侧区域从单元电池堆叠的方向观察时基本上彼此重叠。 燃料电池系统还包括至少一个阳极气流反转装置和阴极气流反转装置。

公开(公告)号：US20110033768A1

公开(公告)日：2011-02-10

申请号：US12937510

申请日：2009-05-18

申请人： Shinsuke Takeguchi ,  Yoichiro Tsuji ,  Takashi Nakagawa

发明人： Shinsuke Takeguchi ,  Yoichiro Tsuji ,  Takashi Nakagawa

IPC分类号： H01M8/04

CPC分类号： H01M8/026 ,  H01M8/0263 ,  H01M8/0265 ,  H01M2008/1095

摘要： A fuel cell separator of the present invention is a plate-shaped fuel cell separator including a reaction gas supply manifold hole 21, a reactant gas discharge manifold hole 22, a groove-shaped first reactant gas channel 131, and one or more groove-shaped second reaction gas channels 132 and 133, wherein the first reactant gas channel 131 includes a first portion 41 and a second portion 51 located upstream of the first portion 41, and a cross-sectional area of a first specified portion 81 which is a continuous portion including at least the first portion of the first reactant gas channel 131 and/or a cross-sectional area of a second specified portion 82 which extends continuously from at least a downstream end of the first reactant gas channel 131 is/are smaller than cross-sectional areas of the second reactant gas channels 132 and 133.

摘要翻译： 本发明的燃料电池用隔板是具有反应气体供给歧管孔21，反应气体排出歧管孔22，槽状第一反应气体通道131以及一个以上的槽状的板状燃料电池隔板 第二反应气体通道132和133，其中第一反应气体通道131包括位于第一部分41上游的第一部分41和第二部分51，以及作为连续部分的第一特定部分81的横截面积 包括至少第一反应物气体通道131的第一部分和/或从第一反应气体通道131的至少下游端连续延伸的第二规定部分82的横截面面积小于交叉点， 第二反应气体通道132和133的横截面积。

公开(公告)号：US20100248087A1

公开(公告)日：2010-09-30

申请号：US12745743

申请日：2008-12-04

申请人： Yoichiro Tsuji ,  Toshihiro Matsumoto ,  Hiroki Kusakabe ,  Takashi Morimoto

发明人： Yoichiro Tsuji ,  Toshihiro Matsumoto ,  Hiroki Kusakabe ,  Takashi Morimoto

IPC分类号： H01M8/00

CPC分类号： B29C45/1671 ,  B29C45/14065 ,  B29C45/14836 ,  B29C2045/1673 ,  B29L2031/3468 ,  H01M8/0202 ,  H01M8/0286 ,  H01M8/1004 ,  H01M2008/1095 ,  Y02P70/56

摘要： In the method of the invention for producing an electrode-membrane-frame assembly, its principal part is formed by laying a first catalyst layer onto one of surfaces of an electrolyte membrane, arranging a first gas diffusion layer onto the surface of the first catalyst layer and inside the circumferential region of the electrolyte membrane, laying a second catalyst layer onto the other surface of the electrolyte membrane, and arranging a second gas diffusion layer onto the surface of the second catalyst layer and inside the circumferential region of the electrolyte membrane so as to make the position of the outer circumference of the second gas diffusion layer different from that of the outer circumference of the first gas diffusion layer. Then, in the state that an outer circumferential portion of either the first gas diffusion layer or the second gas diffusion layer, the portion being positioned outside a region of the first and second gas diffusion layers wherein the two layers are opposed to each other, is opposed to a portion of a flat region located inside the frame of a frame-form primary molded body, the circumferential region of the principal part is arranged on the flat region, and subsequently a secondary molded body is formed to cover the circumferential region of the electrolyte membrane with the second molded body together with the primary molded body, in order to prevent the polymer electrolyte membrane from being broken or deformed.

摘要翻译： 在制造电极 - 膜框架组件的本发明的方法中，其主要部分是通过在电解质膜的一个表面上铺设第一催化剂层而形成的，第一气体扩散层设置在第一催化剂层的表面上 并且在所述电解质膜的周向区域的内部，在所述电解质膜的另一个表面上设置第二催化剂层，在所述第二催化剂层的表面和所述电解质膜的周向区域内配置第二气体扩散层， 使第二气体扩散层的外周的位置与第一气体扩散层的外周的位置不同。 然后，在第一气体扩散层或第二气体扩散层的外周部分，位于第一和第二气体扩散层的其中两层彼此相对的区域之外的部分是 与位于框架一次成型体的框架内的平坦区域的一部分相对，主要部分的周向区域布置在平坦区域上，随后形成二次成型体以覆盖 电解质膜与第一成型体一起具有第二成型体，以防止聚合物电解质膜破裂或变形。

公开(公告)号：US20100104913A1

公开(公告)日：2010-04-29

申请号：US12530907

申请日：2008-03-13

申请人： Masaki Yamauchi ,  Yoichiro Tsuji

发明人： Masaki Yamauchi ,  Yoichiro Tsuji

IPC分类号： H01M8/10

CPC分类号： H01M8/0273 ,  H01M8/0286 ,  H01M8/0289 ,  H01M8/1062 ,  Y02P70/56 ,  Y10T156/10

摘要： A membrane-membrane reinforcing member assembly includes: a polymer electrolyte membrane (1); one or more membrane-like first membrane reinforcing members (10) disposed on a main surface (F10) of the polymer electrolyte membrane (1) so as to extend along a peripheral edge of the polymer electrolyte membrane (1) as a whole; and one or more membrane-like second membrane reinforcing members (11) disposed on the first membrane reinforcing members (10) so as to extend along the peripheral edge of the polymer electrolyte membrane (1) as a whole and disposed such that an inner edge of the second membrane reinforcing member (11) and an inner edge of the first membrane reinforcing member (10) do not coincide with each other.

摘要翻译： 膜 - 膜增强部件组件包括：聚合物电解质膜（1）; 设置在聚合物电解质膜（1）的主表面（F10）上的一个或多个膜状第一膜增强部件（10），从而整体沿着聚合物电解质膜（1）的周缘延伸; 以及一个或多个膜状第二膜增强部件（11），其设置在第一膜增强部件（10）上，以便沿着聚合物电解质膜（1）的整个周边延伸，并且被设置为使得内边缘 的第二膜增强部件（11）的内缘与第一膜加强部件（10）的内缘不一致。

公开(公告)号：US20100086819A1

公开(公告)日：2010-04-08

申请号：US12531414

申请日：2008-03-17

申请人： Miho Gemba ,  Yoichiro Tsuji ,  Shinsuke Takeguchi

发明人： Miho Gemba ,  Yoichiro Tsuji ,  Shinsuke Takeguchi

IPC分类号： H01M8/04 ,  H01M8/10

CPC分类号： H01M8/0265 ,  H01M8/0258 ,  H01M8/026 ,  H01M8/0263 ,  H01M8/0267 ,  H01M8/04291 ,  H01M8/1007 ,  H01M8/241 ,  H01M8/2457 ,  H01M2008/1095

摘要： A polymer electrolyte fuel cell includes: a membrane-electrode assembly (10) having a polymer electrolyte membrane (1) and a pair of electrodes (4, 8) sandwiching a portion of the polymer electrolyte membrane (1) which portion is located inwardly of a peripheral portion of the polymer electrolyte membrane (1); an electrically-conductive first separator (30) disposed to contact the membrane-electrode assembly (10) and formed such that a groove-like first reactant gas channel (37) is formed on one main surface thereof so as to bend; and an electrically-conductive second separator (20) disposed to contact the membrane-electrode assembly (10) and formed such that a groove-like second reactant gas channel (27) is formed on one main surface thereof so as to bend, wherein the first reactant gas channel (27) is formed such that a width of a portion of the first reactant gas channel (27) which portion is formed at least a portion (hereinafter referred to as an uppermost stream portion 8C of the first separator 30) located between a portion where the first reactant gas channel (27) extending from an upstream end thereof first contacts the electrode 8 and a portion where the second reactant gas channel (27) extending from an upstream end thereof first contacts the electrode 4 is smaller than a width of a portion of the first reactant gas channel (27) which portion is formed at a portion other than the uppermost stream portion 8C of the first separator 30.

摘要翻译： 聚合物电解质燃料电池包括：具有聚合物电解质膜（1）的膜 - 电极组件（10）和夹在高分子电解质膜（1）的一部分的一对电极（4,8），该部分位于 聚合物电解质膜（1）的周边部分; 导电的第一分离器（30），设置成与膜 - 电极组件（10）接触并且形成为使得在其一个主表面上形成凹槽状的第一反应气体通道（37）以弯曲; 和设置成接触所述膜 - 电极组件（10）并形成为使得在其一个主表面上形成凹槽状的第二反应气体通道（27）以弯曲的导电的第二隔板（20），其中， 形成第一反应气体通道（27），使得第一反应气体通道（27）的至少部分（以下称为第一分离器30的最上游部分8C）形成的部分的宽度位于 其中从其上游端延伸的第一反应气体通道（27）首先接触电极8的部分与从其上游端延伸的第二反应气体通道（27）首先接触电极4的部分之间小于 第一反应物气体通道（27）的一部分的宽度在第一分离器30的最上游部分8C以外的部分形成。

公开(公告)号：US20100062304A1

公开(公告)日：2010-03-11

申请号：US12524835

申请日：2008-01-29

申请人： Takeou Okanishi ,  Atsushi Nogi ,  Yoichiro Tsuji

发明人： Takeou Okanishi ,  Atsushi Nogi ,  Yoichiro Tsuji

IPC分类号： H01M8/10

CPC分类号： H01M8/0273 ,  H01M8/1004 ,  H01M8/1053 ,  H01M8/1062 ,  H01M8/1065 ,  Y02P70/56

摘要： A membrane membrane-reinforcement-member assembly, membrane catalyst-layer assembly, membrane electrode assembly, and polymer electrolyte fuel cell are provided, which are so configured as to ensure sufficient durability and a cost reduction in unit cells and be suited for mass production. To this end, a membrane membrane-reinforcement-member assembly (20) of a membrane catalyst-layer assembly (30) provided in an MEA (5) of a cell (100) has a polymer electrolyte membrane (1), a pair of first membrane reinforcement members (10a) and a pair of second membrane reinforcement members (10b) which members (10a), (10b) are embedded in the polymer electrolyte membrane (1) such that their main surfaces are not exposed therefrom. The first and second membrane reinforcement members (10a), (10b) are embedded in a parallelogrammatic fashion so as to overlap each other in the four corners of the polymer electrolyte membrane (1) when viewed in a thickness direction of the polymer electrolyte membrane.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种膜增强件组件，膜催化剂层组件，膜电极组件和聚合物电解质燃料电池，其被构造成确保单元电池的足够的耐久性和成本降低并且适合于批量生产。 为此，设置在电池（100）的MEA（5）中的膜催化剂层组件（30）的膜增强部件组件（20）具有聚合物电解质膜（1），一对 第一膜增强构件（10a）和一对第二膜增强构件（10b），其中构件（10a），（10b）嵌入在聚合物电解质膜（1）中，使得它们的主表面不暴露于其中。 当在聚合物电解质膜的厚度方向上观察时，第一和第二膜增强构件（10a），（10b）以平行四边形方式被嵌入，以便在聚合物电解质膜（1）的四个角部彼此重叠。

公开(公告)号：US20090202882A1

公开(公告)日：2009-08-13

申请号：US12293338

申请日：2007-03-28

申请人： Shinsuke Takeguchi ,  Yoichiro Tsuji

发明人： Shinsuke Takeguchi ,  Yoichiro Tsuji

IPC分类号： H01M8/10 ,  H01M4/92

CPC分类号： H01M8/0228 ,  H01M8/0206 ,  H01M8/0668 ,  H01M8/1007 ,  H01M8/241 ,  H01M8/242 ,  H01M8/2483

摘要： A polymer electrolyte fuel cell includes a cell stack (51) formed by stacking cells (11), each of which includes: an MEA (5) having a polymer electrolyte membrane (1), and an anode (4a) and a cathode (4b) sandwiching the polymer electrolyte membrane (1); and an anode separator (6a) and a cathode separator (6b) disposed to sandwich the MEA (5), an anode gas internal supplying channel is formed to supply a fuel gas and air to the anode (4a), and a CO removing catalyst layer (61) containing a CO removing catalyst is formed in the anode gas internal supplying channel.

摘要翻译： 聚合物电解质燃料电池包括通过堆叠电池（11）形成的电池堆（51），每个电池单元包括：具有聚合物电解质膜（1）的MEA（5）和阳极（4a）和阴极（4b） ）夹持聚合物电解质膜（1）; 以及设置成夹着MEA（5）的阳极分离器（6a）和阴极分离器（6b），形成阳极气体内部供应通道，以将燃料气体和空气供应到阳极（4a），并且将CO去除催化剂 在阳极气体内部供给路径中形成含有除氧催化剂的层（61）。