US 12,249,741 B2
Method and apparatus for manufacturing fuel cell stack
Taiki Kuwahara, Nisshin (JP); and Mikio Wada, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Feb. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/651,468.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-024225 (JP), filed on Feb. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0263105 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. H01M 8/0267 (2016.01); H01M 8/0273 (2016.01); H01M 8/248 (2016.01)
CPC H01M 8/0267 (2013.01) [H01M 8/0273 (2013.01); H01M 8/248 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for manufacturing a fuel cell stack including lamination of a plurality of fuel cells, the method comprising:
a conveying step of conveying each of the plurality of fuel cells with opposite ends thereof held in a state where a pair of separators forming each of the plurality of fuel cells vertically faces each other; and
a stacking step of stacking in a vertical direction the plurality of fuel cells with a gasket interposed therebetween, the plurality of fuel cells having upper and lower sides that are inverted from those of the plurality of fuel cells in the conveying step.