US Patent Issued to AVL List, AVL Fuel Cell Canada on Nov. 25 for "Removable load cell design for fuel cell stack" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,846, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to AVL List GmbH (Graz, Austria) and AVL Fuel Cell Canada Inc. (Burnaby, Canada).

"Removable load cell design for fuel cell stack" was invented by Bhagwant Tejpaul Mann (Burnaby Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to designs and methods for desirably allowing the incorporation and/or removal of load cells (10) in a fuel cell stack (1) without significantly changing the load on the series stack of fuel cells when doing so. A relevant fuel cell stack (1) is of a simple construction comprising a compression assembly (18) located in an opening in an end-plate (3, 4) i...