ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,761, issued on June 9, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Apparatus for manufacturing fuel cell and method of manufacturing same" was invented by Min Jin Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an apparatus for manufacturing a fuel cell. When blanking a continuous membrane electrode assembly (MEA) into individual MEAs and then bonding the individual MEAs to a sub-gasket, a scrap electrolyte membrane located at the continuous MEA is prevented from being bonded to a sub-gasket by release-purpose surface roughness formed on a surface thereof, so that...