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Title: Fuel cell stack end plate structure

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5930611

A plate structure is described for use as the end plate in a stack of fuel cells, the plate structure comprising: a first plate; a second plate of lesser thickness than the first plate, the second plate having a first region and second and third regions extending from opposite first and second ends of the first region, each of the second and third regions having a first portion extending outwardly in a first sense of the plate of the first region and a following second portion extending toward the central portion of the first region; the first plate abutting and being supported on the second portions of the second and third regions, thereby defining a channel opening at third and fourth ends of the first region, the third and fourth ends of the first region being transverse to the first and second ends of the first region; and resilient means disposed in the channel.

Assignee:
Energy Research Corp., Danbury, CT
Patent Number(s):
US 4689280
OSTI ID:
5930611
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: Filed date 20 Feb 1986
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English