Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc.

Jitsuji Otsuki

Tatsunori Okada

Tetsuya Yagi

Mitsuie Matsumura

Masahiro Mukai

Toshio Shinoki

Yasuhira Kikuoka

Akira Kusunoki

Masayuki Miyazaki

Hiroshi Tahara

Enju Nishiyama

Toshihide Tanaka

Sanyu Narita

A bipolar plate is designed to provide a gas seal 16 around an electrode and gas seals 17a around fuel gas manifolds on the same plane and to separate the gas seal 16 and gas seals 17a around oxidant gas manifolds 4, 6 with hollowed parts on an anode electrode 25 side, and to provide the gas seal 16 and the gas seals 17b on a same plane and to separate the gas seal 16 and the gas seals 17a with hollowed parts on a cathode electrode 20 side. Also disclosed are sealing parts for the fuel side and the oxidant side of the fuel cell.

Fuel cell and sealing parts therefore

A bipolar plate is designed to provide a gas seal 16 around an electrode and gas seals 17a around fuel gas manifolds on the same plane and to separate the gas seal 16 and gas seals 17a around oxidant gas manifolds 4, 6 with hollowed parts on an anode electrode 25 side, and to provide the gas seal 16 and the gas seals 17b on a same plane and to separate the gas seal 16 and the gas seals 17a with hollowed parts on a cathode electrode 20 side.

Fuel cell and its bipolar plate

A internal reforming type molten carbonate fuel cell is provided in which the process or flow direction of the reforming reaction of a raw fuel gas in the reforming reaction section is countercurrent to the flow direction of the oxidant gas in the cell reaction section. Therefore, a temperature difference in the fuel cell can be suppressed.

Internal reforming type molten carbonate fuel cell

Growing community of inventors

Osaka, Japan

Jitsuji Otsuki