US Patent Issued to TOYOTA BOSHOKU on March 3 for "Separator for fuel cell and single cell for fuel cell" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,594, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOYOTA BOSHOKU K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Separator for fuel cell and single cell for fuel cell" was invented by Haruyuki Aono (Aichi-ken, Japan) and Satoshi Kawabe (Ichinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separator for a fuel cell includes a facing surface configured to face a power generating unit of the fuel cell. Groove passages and ribs that protrude toward the power generating unit are provided on the facing surface. At least one of the ribs includes at least one recess in a center of the rib in an arrangement direction of the groove passages. The recess includes a bottom surfac...