ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,259, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).
"Method and device for producing a fuel cell stack by conveying fuel cell layers along belts via overhangs" was invented by Wolfgang Beck (Ingolstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a fuel cell stack includes: providing and individual handover of a plurality of first layers of the fuel cell stack, provided with overhangs, to a first conveyor belt pair which is motor driven and revolves around a first end, the two individual revolving conveyor belts of which run spaced apart so that they respectively receive one of the overhangs of th...