US Patent Issued to Hitachi High-Tech on May 5 for "Fuel cell and method for producing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,604, issued on May 5, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fuel cell and method for producing same" was invented by Yoshitaka Sasago (Tokyo), Noriyuki Sakuma (Tokyo), Natsuki Yokoyama (Tokyo), Atsushi Unemoto (Tokyo), Takashi Tsutsumi (Tokyo), Aritoshi Sugimoto (Tokyo), Toru Aramaki (Tokyo) and Nobuyuki Mise (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell 1 includes a silicon substrate 2, a porous support material layer 5, a plurality of holes 60 or columns 40, and a stacked body. The stacked body includes an upper electrode layer 10, a solid electrolyte layer 100 and a lower electrode layer 20. The upper electrode layer...