Patent ID: 8530107
Filing Date: 2013-09-10
Classification: H01M,Y02E

Abstract:
1. A fuel cell formed by stacking an electrolyte electrode assembly between separators in a stacking direction, the electrolyte electrode assembly including an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte interposed between the anode and the cathode, each of the separators comprising: a sandwiching section for sandwiching the electrolyte electrode assembly, the sandwiching section having a fuel gas channel for supplying a fuel gas and an oxygen-containing gas channel for supplying an oxygen-containing gas, separately; a bridge connected to the sandwiching section, the bridge having a fuel gas supply channel for supplying the fuel gas to the fuel gas channel and an oxygen-containing gas supply channel for supplying the oxygen-containing gas to the oxygen-containing gas channel; and a reactant gas supply section connected to the bridge, a fuel gas supply passage for supplying the fuel gas to the fuel gas supply channel and an oxygen-containing gas supply passage for supplying the oxygen-containing gas to the oxygen-containing gas supply channel extending through the reactant gas supply section in the stacking direction, wherein the fuel gas supplied from the fuel gas supply passage of one of the separators to the fuel gas channel of the sandwiching section of one of the separators through the fuel gas supply channel of the bridge of one of the separators is supplied along an electrode surface of the anode, and the oxygen-containing gas supplied from the oxygen-containing gas supply passage of another of the separators to the oxygen-containing gas channel of the sandwiching section of the another of the separators through the oxygen-containing gas supply channel of the bridge of the another of the separators is supplied along an electrode surface of the cathode.