Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Heating device for end plate of fuel cell stack
- Patent Title (中): 燃料电池堆端板加热装置
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Application No.: US13039704Application Date: 2011-03-03
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Publication No.: US09502722B2Publication Date: 2016-11-22
- 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: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
- Agent Peter F. Corless
- Priority: KR10-2010-0103805 20101025
- Main IPC: H01M8/04
- IPC: H01M8/04 ; H01M8/02 ; H01M8/24

Abstract:
The present invention provides a heating device for an end plate of a fuel cell stack, which can prevent a decrease in temperature of unit cells around the ends of the fuel cell stack by providing a structure for circulating high temperature coolant discharged from the fuel cell stack in the end plate. Non-uniform temperature distribution in the fuel cell stack can thereby be prevented. In particular, a heating device for an end plate of a fuel cell stack is provided wherein high temperature coolant flowing from the upstream of a coolant outlet manifold to the downstream is allowed to circulate through the inside of the end plate and to be discharged to the outside such that the thermal energy of the coolant is supplied to the end plate and, at the same time, transferred to unit cells adjacent to the end plate.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120100450A1 HEATING DEVICE FOR END PLATE OF FUEL CELL STACK Public/Granted day:2012-04-26
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