Nissan Motor Company Limited

Saijo Inx Co., Ltd.

Koji Nakatani

Keiko Kushibiki

Yasushi Nakajima

Shigeo Ibuka

Tatsuya Suzuki

Saburo Suzuki

Katsunori Matsui

For an enhanced rigidity and suppressed occurrences of stress concentration, a solid-electrolyte fuel cell is configured with simplex cells, a metallic separator of a circular thin-sheet form having a gas introducing port and gas discharging ports in the central portion, and cell mounting parts for the simplex cells to be fixed thereto, another metallic separator of a circular thin-sheet form having a gas introducing port and gas discharging ports in the central portion, the separators defining a space in between, and a pair of flow channel members accommodated in the space and pressed to be brought into abutment, for communication of their channels with the gas introducing ports and the gas discharging ports to effect gas supply and gas discharge to and from the space, either flow channel member being joined, within the space, to one separator.

Solid-electrolyte fuel cell and stack structure

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Kyoto, Japan

Koji Nakatani