Patent ID: 8202639

Claim:
An endplate for a fuel cell, the endplate comprising a structural block having an internal face designed to bear against a stack of individual cells, with an external face opposite to the internal face and one or more peripheral faces, the internal face having at least two orifices designed to feed a gas circuit located inside the cell, the structural block comprising a first chamber and comprising a feed duct ending at a wall of the chamber: wherein the first chamber is provided between the internal face and the external face, and is delimited on a side of the internal face and of the external face by a wall of the structural block, the first chamber being elongated roughly parallel to the internal face, the first chamber opens onto a peripheral face, the first chamber being delimited by at least one plug mounted on said peripheral face; and wherein a recirculation body is fitted inside the chamber, positioned at the point where the feed duct ends, the recirculation body being mounted hermetically on the wall of the chamber to separate the chamber into a gas recirculation part terminating at one of the orifices and a feed part terminating at the other orifice, the recirculation body comprising a mixing element for mixing a new gas originating from the feed duct and the gas originating from the recirculation part and enabling the mixture to be directed to the other orifice.