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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jeffrey P. Allen, Naugatuck, CT (US);
Assignee:
GenCell Corporation, Southbury, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 8/02 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 8/02 ;
Abstract
A fuel cell apparatus includes a fuel cell stack positioned within a housing. The housing is contained entirely within a compression assembly. In certain preferred embodiments, the fuel cell stack includes a plurality of bipolar separator plates formed of a plurality of segments, the compression assembly including mating pairs of anode compression bars and cathode compression bars secured to one another and being positioned between a pair of segments.