US Patent Issued to TOYOTA SHATAI on Sept. 30 for "Fuel cell separator" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,512, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA SHATAI K.K. (Kariya, Japan).

"Fuel cell separator" was invented by Yoshinori Shinozaki (Kariya, Japan) and Satoshi Futami (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separator for a fuel cell includes protrusions spaced apart from each other. The protrusions are configured to contact a power generation portion. The separator includes a gas passage that extends between two adjacent ones of the protrusions. The gas passage includes ribs that protrude toward the power generation portion. The ribs include first ribs spaced apart from each other in an arrangement direction of the protru...