US Patent Issued to AGC on July 15 for "Catalyst layer, membrane electrode assembly for solid polymer fuel cell, and solid polymer fuel cell" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,366, issued on July 15, was assigned to AGC Inc. (Tokyo).

"Catalyst layer, membrane electrode assembly for solid polymer fuel cell, and solid polymer fuel cell" was invented by Toshihiro Tanuma (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catalyst layer including: a catalyst-supported carbon including a catalyst including platinum supported on a carbon carrier; and an ionomer, in which the catalyst-supported carbon has a mesopore having a pore diameter of from 2 nm to less than 10 nm in a pore distribution obtained by a nitrogen adsorption method, at least a part of the ionomer exists in the mesopore having a pore diameter of from 2 nm to...