Patent ID: 9379407
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: H01M,Y02E

Claim Text:
1. A fuel cell module comprising a fuel cell stack formed by stacking electrolyte electrode assemblies and separators alternately in a stacking direction, the electrolyte electrode assemblies each including an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte interposed between the anode and the cathode, a fuel gas channel for supplying a fuel gas along an electrode surface of the anode being formed on one surface of each of the separators, an oxygen-containing gas channel for supplying an oxygen-containing gas along an electrode surface of the cathode being formed on the other surface of each of the separators, and a fuel gas inlet for supplying the fuel gas into the fuel gas channel being formed in each of the separators; an end separator is provided at the one end in the stacking direction, adjacent to the electrolyte electrode assembly, wherein the end separator has substantially a same shape and configuration as the separators alternately stacked with the electrolyte electrode assembly in the stacking direction except that the fuel gas inlet is not formed in the end separator in order to limit supply of the fuel gas to the fuel gas channel, and the end separator includes the oxygen-containing gas channel to allow supply of the oxygen-containing gas; and a load absorption member having a shape substantially similar to that of the electrolyte electrode assembly and overlapping with the electrolyte electrode assembly in the stacking direction is provided at the other end in the stacking direction, directly adjacent to a final separator at the other end of the fuel cell stack.