US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 17 for "Water electrolysis cell and water electrolysis stack" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,691, issued on March 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Water electrolysis cell and water electrolysis stack" was invented by Joji Yoshimura (Toyota, Japan), Tomoyuki Kayama (Nagakute, Japan), Tsuyoshi Hamaguchi (Nagakute, Japan), Ryuichi Iwata (Nagakute, Japan) and Takahiro Ikeda (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water electrolysis cell includes an anode disposed on one side across a solid polymer electrolyte membrane and a cathode disposed on the other side. The anode is configured of an anode catalyst layer, an anode gas diffusion layer, and an anode separator, laminated in that order from a...