| 摘要 |
A low compressive load seal for a solid polymer fuel cell employs two offset peripheral projections, one on each of the anode and cathode separator plates, for compressing a gasket. The design can achieve a seal against a given burst pressure with a lower load normal to the separator plates by creating significant compression parallel to the separator plates in the gap between the offset projections. The design allows for thinner fuel cell constructions while avoiding the issues that arise in prior art designs (e.g., stress on seal material and component crushing) if reasonable tolerances were allowed for variations in component thickness.
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