US Patent Issued to AISIN on July 14 for "Humidifier for fuel cell" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,173, issued on July 14, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Humidifier for fuel cell" was invented by Katsuhiro Kajio (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A humidifier for a fuel cell includes a humidifying unit that produces humidified air. The humidifying unit includes: a first separator having dry gas channels; a second separator having water-containing gas channels; a humidifying membrane that provides moisture contained in gas flowing through the water-containing gas channels to dry air flowing through the dry gas channels to produce the humidified air; protective films that reinforce the humidifying membrane;...