ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,511, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for producing a bipolar plate for a fuel cell" was invented by Erhard Hirth (Ellhofen, Germany) and Harald Bauer (Ehningen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a bipolar plate (10) for a fuel cell (1), including a plate body (11) for separating the fuel cell (1) from a neighboring fuel cell (1) or a housing. The plate body (11) has a flow field structure (1b) for introducing the reactants into the fuel cell (1). The method includes the following steps: providing a mass (D1) made of electrically conductive particles and ...