Patents by Inventor Willem J. Schlosser

Willem J. Schlosser 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).

  • Apparatus for supplying or draining a fluid to or from the marginal portion of a flat fuel cell electrode and an electrode element and a fuel cell provided with such an apparatus
    Patent number: 4403018
    Abstract: Apparatus for supplying or draining a fluid to or from a marginal portion of a flat fuel cell electrode, consisting of a supply or drainage device for the fluid, which is connected with a spacious collecting channel (5) which runs substantially parallel to the marginal portion of the fuel cell electrode and which is connected with a number of substantially equidistantly spaced points of this marginal portion via micro-channels (4), these micro-channels having substantially identical dimensions and a width b that is smaller than their depth d. Preferably b/d is at most 0.9, and H/h is larger than 3, H and h being the hydraulic diameters of, respectively, the collecting channel (5) and the micro-channels (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1983
    Assignee: Electrochemische Energieconversie, N.V.
    Inventors: Marinus Alfenaar, Joannes J. P. Leijen, Willem J. Schlosser