US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA on July 8 for "Permeable support layer for fuel cell fluid flow networks" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,114, issued on July 8, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Permeable support layer for fuel cell fluid flow networks" was invented by Ercan M. Dede (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Yuqing Zhou (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell may include a first fuel cell bipolar plate defining an air layer, a second fuel cell bipolar plate defining a hydrogen layer, and a coolant layer defined by the air layer and the hydrogen layer. The coolant layer includes a plurality of coolant microchannels that facilitate flow of a coolant. A permeable support layer is arranged between ...