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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2009
Hideaki Kikuchi, Utsunomiya, JP;
Narutoshi Sugita, Utsunomiya, JP;
Yoshihiro Nakanishi, Utsunomiya, JP;
Tadashi Nishiyama, Sakura, JP;
Keisuke Andou, Saitama, JP;
Hideaki Kikuchi, Utsunomiya, JP;
Narutoshi Sugita, Utsunomiya, JP;
Yoshihiro Nakanishi, Utsunomiya, JP;
Tadashi Nishiyama, Sakura, JP;
Keisuke Andou, Saitama, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fuel cell includes a plurality of fuel cell units, each fuel cell unit including an electrode assembly formed by disposing electrodes on both sides of an electrolyte, a pair of separators that sandwich the electrode assembly, and gas sealing members that are disposed at an outer peripheral portion of the electrode assembly, and that seal respective reaction gas flow passages that are formed between each separator and the electrode assembly. In one of the separators of each of the fuel cell units, a through path is formed that penetrates the separator in the thickness direction thereof, and the through path formed in one of the separators of one of the fuel cell units and the through path formed in one of the separators of adjacent one of the fuel cell units are offset with each other as viewed in the thickness direction of the separators.