FUEL CELL MODULE

• Main Authors: KOSAKA KENICHIRO, KUDOME OSAO, MATAKE NORIHISA, NAGATA KATSUMI, INOUE YOSHIAKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 05.02.2004
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; ELECTRICITY; PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSIONOF CHEMICAL INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To equally distribute gas from a chamber for supplying the gas for a fuel battery cell to a plurality of fuel battery cell tubes having the fuel battery cell connected to the chamber, in a fuel battery cell module. SOLUTION: This fuel cell module used in the present invention is provided with the plurality of fuel battery cell tubes 3, the first fuel chamber 8, the second fuel chamber 9, and an air chamber 7. Each of the cell tubes 3 includes the fuel battery cell. The first fuel chamber 8 supplies the fuel gas 1 to the fuel battery cell tubes 3, and one end part of the cell tube 3 is engaged with the first tube plate 14. The second fuel chamber 9 discharges the fuel gas 1 unused in the cell, and the other part of the cell tube 3 is engaged with the second tube plate 15. The air chamber 7 is installed between the first chamber 8 and the second chamber 9, supplies oxidant gas 2 to the fuel battery cell, and includes the first insulation body 10-2 having the first hole 10-3 for penetrating the cell tube 3. The first insulation body 10-2 generates a pressure loss in the oxidant gas 2. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO