Chemistry: electrical current producing apparatus – product – and – Fuel cell – subcombination thereof – or method of making or... – Means for distributing – storing – or preventing fluid movement
Reexamination Certificate
2008-12-12
2011-12-13
Apicella, Karie O'Neill (Department: 1726)
Chemistry: electrical current producing apparatus, product, and
Fuel cell, subcombination thereof, or method of making or...
Means for distributing, storing, or preventing fluid movement
C429S502000, C429S514000, C429S515000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08076043
ABSTRACT:
A fuel cell body has an anode having an anode-side separator with projections and depressions formed on its surface, a cathode, and a membrane electrode assembly disposed between the anode and the cathode, and the fuel cell body is disposed in a container for storing liquid fuel so that at least the anode side is immersed therein. Fuel passageways through which the liquid fuel flows are formed by regions surrounded by the projections and depressions on the surface of the separator and the membrane electrode assembly. By this, the downsized, simplified and lower power consuming structure of auxiliary equipment such as a fuel feed system is achieved.
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Aoyama Toshiyuki
Hasegawa Kenji
Higashionji Masaru
Hori Kenya
Odagiri Masaru
Apicella Karie O'Neill
Panasonic Corporation
Wenderoth , Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
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