US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 10 for "Water electrolysis cell and water electrolysis stack" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,016, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Water electrolysis cell and water electrolysis stack" was invented by Joji Yoshimura (Toyota, Japan), Ryuichi Iwata (Nagakute, Japan), Tsuyoshi Hamaguchi (Nagakute, Japan), Tomoyuki Kayama (Nagakute, Japan) and Takahiro Ikeda (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water electrolysis cell includes an anode disposed on one side across a solid polymer electrolyte membrane and a cathode disposed on another side. The anode is configured of an anode catalyst layer, an anode gas diffusion layer, and an anode separator, laminated in that order from a sid...