Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus for manufacturing membrane-electrode assembly for fuel cell and membrane-electrode assembly manufactured using the same
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Application No.: US14846787Application Date: 2015-09-06
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Publication No.: US09825312B2Publication Date: 2017-11-21
- Inventor: Sun Ho Lee
- Applicant: Hyundai Motor Company
- 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: KR10-2014-0142799 20141021
- Main IPC: H01M8/00
- IPC: H01M8/00 ; H01M8/0276 ; H01M8/0286 ; H01M8/1018

Abstract:
An apparatus for manufacturing a membrane-electrode assembly for a fuel cell is provided. The apparatus includes a sub-gasket feeding unit that forms first electrode windows, unrolls a first sub-gasket sheet, and supplies the sheet to a transfer line. An electrode membrane loading unit installed over the transfer line forms electrode catalyst layers on both faces of an electrolyte membrane, collects the electrode membrane sheet cut, and loads the sheets onto first electrode windows. A sub-gasket loading unit installed over the transfer line forms second electrode windows, collects a second sub-gasket sheet, and loads the sheets on the electrode membrane sheet. MEA bonding units installed on the transfer line bond the first sub-gasket sheet, the electrode membrane sheet, and the second sub-gasket sheet mutually stacked while passing the first sub-gasket sheet, the electrode membrane sheet, and the second sub-gasket sheet between a pair of hot rollers along the transfer line.
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