US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Nov. 3 for "Fuel cell separator and fuel cell stack" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,117, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Fuel cell separator and fuel cell stack" was invented by Suguru Omori (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell separator includes a coolant flow field formed between first and second metal separator plates. A first communication hole is formed in an outer peripheral wall of each of passage sealing beads that surround respectively an air vent passage and a coolant drain passage which are formed so as to penetrate in a separator thickness direction. A second communication hole is formed in an inner peripheral wall of each of the passage sealing beads. T...