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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2007
Applicants:
Satoshi Mogi, Yamato, JP;
Masaaki Shibata, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Satoshi Mogi, Yamato, JP;
Masaaki Shibata, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 8/04 (2006.01); H01M 8/06 (2006.01); H01M 8/24 (2006.01); H01M 8/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
There is provided a fuel cell in which produced water can be efficiently conveyed to an upstream region of hydrogen gas flow, thereby quickly increasing the power generation performance of an electrolyte membrane after activation in a short period of time and giving a stable output for a long period of time and in which the directions of hydrogen gas flows in a first and a second fuel supply layers that share one oxygen supply layer are set to be opposite to each other.