US Patent Issued to REINZ-DICHTUNGS-GMBH on Nov. 11 for "Separator plate with a homogenized bead strength in the port region" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,855, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to REINZ-DICHTUNGS-GMBH (Neu-Ulm, Germany).

"Separator plate with a homogenized bead strength in the port region" was invented by Andre Speidel (Neu-Ulm, Germany) and Bernd Gaugler (Neu-Ulm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for separator plates, bipolar plates, stacks of plates, and electrochemical systems, comprising at least one through-opening for the passage of a fluid and a rim that delimits the through-opening. The rim having a curved course and a rectilinear course that adjoins the curved course. A bead arrangement extends around the curved course and the rectiline...