Patent ID: 8389181
Filing Date: 2013-03-05
Classification: H01M,Y02E

Abstract:
1. A fuel cell stack device comprising: a fuel cell stack in which a plurality of columnar fuel cells are arranged upright, and are electrically connected via a current collecting member interposed between adjacent fuel cells; a manifold that fixes lower ends of the fuel cells, and that supplies a reactant gas to the fuel cells; and an elastically deformable fuel cell stack-supporting member that has a lower end fixed to the manifold, and that is disposed so as to hold the fuel cell stack via an end current-collecting member from both end sides in an arrangement direction of the fuel cells of the fuel cell stack, the fuel cell stack-supporting member having a flat plate portion that is made of a conductive member, a current-drawing portion that extends outward along the arrangement direction of the cells from an lower end side of the flat plate portion, and a pair of side plate portions that respectively extend so as to be bent from different edge sides of the flat plate portion, the entirety of the pair of side plate portions being arranged at a position lower than the current-drawing portion, and the fuel cell stack-supporting member being disposed such that a fixed portion thereof fixed to the manifold is at a same or lower level than a fixed portion of the fuel cells.