Patents by Inventor HONG-YI KUO

HONG-YI KUO has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11349135
    Abstract: A method of preparation and application for a glass ceramic sealing thin strip with high sealing performance, differing from using conventional glass ceramic packaging paste applied to the junction of the cell stack assembly and connecting plates. The glass ceramic sealing thin strip of present invention utilizes tape casting to produce a single layer or multi-layer stacking in accordance with the required thickness of the glass-ceramic sealing thin strip, and cutting the glass ceramic sealing thin strips from molds in accordance with the geometry of cell stacks with equal thickness of the glass ceramic sealing thin strip for SOFC cell stack assembly, aiming to overcome the setbacks of the conventional dispensing method with glass ceramic packaging paste that makes the thickness difficult to control, and to effectively improve sealing performance of the cell stack assembly and the power generation efficiency, and achieve commercial application with mass production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH, ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL, EXECUTIVE YUAN
    Inventors: Tai-Nan Lin, Szu-Han Wu, Yi-Jing Wu, Min-Fang Han, Wei-Xin Kao, Hong-Yi Kuo, Chun-Yen Yeh, Yung-Neng Cheng, Ruey-Yi Lee
  • Publication number: 20220037682
    Abstract: A method of preparation and application for a glass ceramic sealing thin strip with high sealing performance, differing from using conventional glass ceramic packaging paste applied to the junction of the cell stack assembly and connecting plates. The glass ceramic sealing thin strip of present invention utilizes tape casting to produce a single layer or multi-layer stacking in accordance with the required thickness of the glass-ceramic sealing thin strip, and cutting the glass ceramic sealing thin strips from molds in accordance with the geometry of cell stacks with equal thickness of the glass ceramic sealing thin strip for SOFC cell stack assembly, aiming to overcome the setbacks of the conventional dispensing method with glass ceramic packaging paste that makes the thickness difficult to control, and to effectively improve sealing performance of the cell stack assembly and the power generation efficiency, and achieve commercial application with mass production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: TAI-NAN LIN, SZU-HAN WU, YI-JING WU, MIN-FANG HAN, WEI-XIN KAO, HONG-YI KUO, CHUN-YEN YEH, YUNG-NENG CHENG, RUEY-YI LEE
  • Patent number: 10283799
    Abstract: A membrane electrode assembly structure of a fuel cell and a method of making the same are disclosed. The materials to be used include NiO, 8YSZ and 3YSZ that mixed into a slurry, formed into anodes by tape casting, sintered to form an anode substrate, and followed by forming a thin film of electrolyte layer on the surface of the anode substrate, forming a cathode layer on the outer surface of the electrolyte layer to obtain the membrane electrode assembly, which utilizes the 3YSZ having a tetragonal crystal phase to improve the toughness and mechanical strength of the material of NiO-8YSZ through calcination, thus the thickness of the anode substrate can be reduced, and the fuel gas diffusion path and resistance can be appropriately reduced to enhance the conductivity of the anode substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL EXECUTIVE YUAN
    Inventors: Hong-Yi Kuo, Tai-Nan Lin, Jen-Yuan Kuo, Ming-Wei Liao, Chun-Yen Yeh, Yu-Ming Chen, Wei-Xin Kao
  • Publication number: 20180309147
    Abstract: A membrane electrode assembly structure of a fuel cell and a method of making the same are disclosed. The materials to be used include NiO, 8YSZ and 3YSZ that mixed into a slurry, formed into anodes by tape casting, sintered to form an anode substrate, and followed by forming a thin film of electrolyte layer on the surface of the anode substrate, forming a cathode layer on the outer surface of the electrolyte layer to obtain the membrane electrode assembly, which utilizes the 3YSZ having a tetragonal crystal phase to improve the toughness and mechanical strength of the material of NiO-8YSZ through calcination, thus the thickness of the anode substrate can be reduced, and the fuel gas diffusion path and resistance can be appropriately reduced to enhance the conductivity of the anode substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Hong-Yi Kuo, Tai-Nan Lin, Jen-Yuan Kuo, Ming-Wei Liao, Chun-Yen Yeh, Yu-Ming Chen, Wei-Xin Kao
  • Patent number: 10022706
    Abstract: A composite material type oxygen transport membrane and its preparation method are disclosed. The composite material that is an ionic-electronic mixed conducting material having high ionic conductivity is stirred into slurry and formed into a thin strip-shaped green tape substrate through tape casting to obtain a predetermined half-finished substrate, and then sintered to form the half-finished substrate into a conductive function type oxygen ion conducting substrate, followed by choosing small particle shaped highly catalyzed ionic-electronic mixed conducting material to be evenly adhered to at least one side surface of the conductive function type oxygen ion conducting substrate to form a reductive function type oxygen ion conducting layer. The reductive function type oxygen ion conducting layer and the conductive function type oxygen ion conducting substrate are then bonded to produce a composite material type oxygen transport membrane element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Institute of Nuclear Energy Research Atomic Energy Council, Executive Yuan
    Inventors: Ming-Wei Liao, Tai-Nan Lin, Wei-Xin Kao, Chun-Yen Yeh, Hong-Yi Kuo, Yu-Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 9806367
    Abstract: A fabrication process for production of planar type solid oxide fuel cell with high electrical conductivity and low fuel gas impedance is disclosed. It is a tape casting to produce an anode substrate furnished with a pore array structure on one or plurality of layers of the anode green tape on the utmost outside of the anode. It is to implement the process of solid oxide fuel cell membrane electrode assembly (SOFC-MEA) with precision abrasion to remove nickel depleted layer on the anode surface to complete the production of a unit cell. The fabrication of anode with pore array structure provides a good conduction effect for fuel gas and the solid oxide fuel cell with this treatment has features of high electrical conductivity and low fuel gas impedance to improve the performance of SOFC unit cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: Tai-Nan Lin, Jen-Yuan Kuo, Hong-Yi Kuo, Wei-Xin Kao, Chun-Yen Yeh
  • Publication number: 20160268620
    Abstract: A fabrication process for production of planar type solid oxide fuel cell with high electrical conductivity and low fuel gas impedance is disclosed. It is a tape casting to produce an anode substrate furnished with a pore array structure on one or plurality of layers of the anode green tape on the utmost outside of the anode. It is to implement the process of solid oxide fuel cell membrane electrode assembly (SOFC-MEA) with precision abrasion to remove nickel depleted layer on the anode surface to complete the production of a unit cell. The fabrication of anode with pore array structure provides a good conduction effect for fuel gas and the solid oxide fuel cell with this treatment has features of high electrical conductivity and low fuel gas impedance to improve the performance of SOFC unit cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: TAI-NAN LIN, JEN-YUAN KUO, HONG-YI KUO, WEI-XIN KAO, CHUN-YEN YEH