US Patent Issued to NOK on Oct. 27 for "Gasket for fuel cell" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,498, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NOK Corp. (Japan).

"Gasket for fuel cell" was invented by Hajime Yui (Fujisawa, Japan), Shigeru Watanabe (Fujisawa, Japan) and Takeshi Masaka (Kikugawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gasket includes a first separator having a first bead, and a second separator superposed with the first separator and having a second bead formed at a position opposite to the first bead, wherein the first separator further has a first protrusion disposed close to the first bead and protruding from a first separator front surface in the same direction as the protruding direction of the first bead, and the ...