Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Masanori Nishiura

Masaharu Minami

Kiyoshi Watanabe

Tetsuo Gora

Hitoshi Miyamoto

Koichi Takenobu

Kazumi Ogura

Masayuki Funatsu

Mitsuhiro Irino

Nobuyoshi Tomita

Tokuji Satake

Kazuhiro Yoshimoto

Masao Sumi

A noble solid electrolyte fuel cell includes a generating layer (5), an interconnector layer (9), and a support layer (10) disposed between the generating and interconnector layers. The interconnector layer comprises a fuel electrode (6), an interconnector material (7) and an oxygen electrode (8). The support layer (10) forms a fuel passage and an oxidizer passage, and supporting rods (15, 102) for gas sealing are disposed at both ends of the support layer. A sealing film (110) is cemented to the contact surfaces of the supporting rods (15, 102) between the generating layer and the interconnector layer, and this sealing film becomes soft or half melted during the operation of the fuel cell. This construction provides improved cell performances due to better sealing of gases even under large temperature differences. The use of finer particles near the surface of the solid electrolyte only is also disclosed.

Solid electrolyte fuel cell

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Kobe, Japan

Masanori Nishiura