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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2002
Hideaki Kikuchi, Kawachi-gun, JP;
Masahiko Sato, Utsunomiya, JP;
Toshiaki Ariyoshi, Utsunomiya, JP;
Yosuke Fujii, Kawachi-gun, JP;
Daisuke Wachi, Shioya-gun, JP;
Hideaki Kikuchi, Kawachi-gun, JP;
Masahiko Sato, Utsunomiya, JP;
Toshiaki Ariyoshi, Utsunomiya, JP;
Yosuke Fujii, Kawachi-gun, JP;
Daisuke Wachi, Shioya-gun, JP;
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a fuel cell stacking body that allows a connector unit to be used even when the thickness of the fuel cells has been made thinner. A fuel cell stacking body is provided with stacked fuel cells that each have a membrane electrode assembly and separators that sandwich this membrane electrode assembly. The fuel cells generate electricity when fuel gas and oxidizer gas are supplied. The separators of the fuel cells are provided with terminals that enable voltage to be measured by being connected to connectors that are connected an external voltage measuring apparatus. One of the voltage measuring sections is formed at a different position, with respect to the stacking direction, from the voltage measuring section that is adjacent in the stacking direction. The spacing between terminals that are at the same position with respect to the stacking direction is kept at a distance that allows a connector unit formed by grouping together a plurality of connectors to be inserted.