US Patent Issued to NISSAN CHEMICAL on Aug. 25 for "Fluorine-containing compound having sulfonic acid group and polymer electrolyte fuel cell" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,070, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NISSAN CHEMICAL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fluorine-containing compound having sulfonic acid group and polymer electrolyte fuel cell" was invented by Taichi Nakazawa (Funabashi, Japan) and Takamasa Kikuchi (Funabashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compound that has good solubility in a polar solvent and when it is used as an electrolyte in a catalyst layer of a polymer electrolyte fuel cell, the polymer electrolyte fuel cell exhibits good power generation characteristics is disclosed. The compound has a structure represented by the following general formula (I)which contains at least one sulfonic...