Patent ID: 8241373
Filing Date: 2012-08-14
Classification: B21D,H01M,Y02E,Y02P,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for manufacturing a metal separator for a fuel cell using an incremental rubber molding process, the apparatus comprising: a plurality of lower dies having a predetermined pattern formed on an upper surface thereof; a transferring means for pitch-transferring the lower dies in directions opposite to each other; and a pressing means for compression-molding a metal plate placed on the upper surface of each of the lower dies and pitch-transferred, in which the entire area of the metal plate is divided into a plurality of unit areas and the compression molding process is sequentially performed on the respective unit areas wherein; the pressing means comprises: a lower support fixed to both sides of a middle portion of the rail; a retainer connected to the lower support so as to be moved up and down; a compression rubber integrally attached to a lower surface of the retainer; and a driving unit for moving up and down the retainer; further including a plurality of rails and wherein the plurality of lower dies on which the metal plate is placed, are transferred in the directions opposite to each other along each of the rails to undergo a sequential molding process by compression of a rubber retainer of the pressing means.