US Patent Issued to Osaka Gas on Nov. 18 for "Metal support, electrochemical element, electrochemical module, electrochemical device, energy system, solid oxide fuel cell, solid oxide electrolysis cell, and method for producing metal support" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,262, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Osaka Gas Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Metal support, electrochemical element, electrochemical module, electrochemical device, energy system, solid oxide fuel cell, solid oxide electrolysis cell, and method for producing metal support" was invented by Mitsuaki Echigo (Osaka, Japan), Yuji Tsuda (Osaka, Japan) and Hisao Ohnishi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a metal support mostly used for a metal-supported solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC), a SOFC system that improves the power generation efficiency by allowing a gas to smoothly flow into or flow out from the through-holes is achieved. ...