Invention Grant
US08877398B2 Fuel cell stack with coolant flow guide members in coolant inlet and outlet manifold
有权
燃料电池堆,其中冷却剂流动引导构件在冷却剂入口和出口歧管中
- Patent Title: Fuel cell stack with coolant flow guide members in coolant inlet and outlet manifold
- Patent Title (中): 燃料电池堆,其中冷却剂流动引导构件在冷却剂入口和出口歧管中
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Application No.: US12951212Application Date: 2010-11-22
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Publication No.: US08877398B2Publication Date: 2014-11-04
- Inventor: Sung Ho Lee
- Applicant: Sung Ho Lee
- Applicant Address: KR Seoul
- Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
- Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
- Current Assignee Address: KR Seoul
- Agency: Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
- Agent Peter F. Corless
- Priority: KR10-2010-0094005 20100929
- Main IPC: H01M8/02
- IPC: H01M8/02 ; H01M8/04 ; H01M8/24

Abstract:
The present invention provides a fuel cell stack which can reduce variation in temperature distribution of whole cells by a simple change in the structure of a coolant inlet manifold and a coolant outlet manifold in the fuel cell stack without the use of a conventional insulator, which increases the thickness of the fuel cell stack, a heater, which requires a power supply and its control logic, or a cover for forming an air layer for thermal insulation, which disadvantageously prevents the heat generated in the electrode from being transferred to the end plate. The invention provides a fuel cell stack with improved temperature uniformity, comprising one or more coolant flow guide members positioned within a coolant outlet manifold and/or a coolant inlet manifold, which causes coolant present in the coolant outlet manifold to be recirculated to the coolant inlet manifold and then back through one or more predetermined cells adjacent to the end plate to the coolant outlet manifold, thereby providing uniformity in the heat of the fuel cell stack.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120077105A1 FUEL CELL STACK WITH IMPROVED TEMPERATURE UNIFORMITY Public/Granted day:2012-03-29
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