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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 1991
Filed:
Jun. 14, 1989
Shiro Yamauchi, Amagasaki, JP;
Naotake Rito, Amagasaki, JP;
Abstract
A humidity controller has a humidity controlling element disposed in the opening of a chamber and comprising a hydrogen ion conductor membrane, porous electrodes disposed on two surfaces of the hydrogen ion conductor membrane and collecting electrodes disposed on opposite surfaces of the porous electrodes. Each of the collecting electrodes is disposed over an area than the whole area of each surface of the hydrogen ion conductor membrane such that the current density at a portion of the hydrogen ion conductor membrane where no collecting electrode is located is reduced by at most 1/2, thereby reducing the stress due to the difference between the thermal expansion coefficients of the porous electrodes and the collecting electrodes and limiting disconnection between these two groups of electrodes. The difference between the humidity control performance of this humidity controller and that of an arrangement in which collecting electrodes are disposed over the whole surfaces of the porous electrodes is small.