US Patent Issued to DENSO on Sept. 8 for "Method for manufacturing membrane electrode assembly" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,803, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing membrane electrode assembly" was invented by Yuuya Yoshimitsu (Kariya-city, Japan) and Nobuyoshi Sakakibara (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for manufacturing a membrane electrode assembly, a catalyst layer is bonded to a catalyst layer support made of a sublimation material by placing the catalyst layer support into contact with the catalyst layer. In the method, an electrolyte membrane is bonded to the catalyst layer by placing the electrolyte membrane into contact with the catalyst layer bonded to the c...