Patent ID: 8034510

Claim:
A fuel cell, comprising: an electrolyte layer, an electrode provided with a catalyst and formed on the electrolyte layer, and a gas channel-forming member that is disposed at a side of the electrode and that forms a channel for supplying a reactant gas to a plane of the electrode, wherein the gas channel-forming member is constructed so that a plurality of corrugated plate portions in each of which ridge portions and trough portions continuously alternate with each other in a first direction are interconnected in a second direction that intersects with the first direction and with a direction of an amplitude of the ridge portions and the trough portions, and so that two adjacent corrugated plate portions of the plurality of corrugated plate portions are interconnected in such a manner that the trough portions of one of the two corrugated plate portions connect to the ridge portions of another one of the corrugated plate portions and connection planes formed by interconnection between the trough portions and the ridge portions form stepped meshes, and wherein a planar direction of each of the corrugated plate portions is inclined by a predetermined angle with respect to the plane of the electrode.