US 12,294,129 B2
Device and method for stacking cell components and a device and method for manufacturing a fuel cell layer structure
Tim Janusch, Erkheim (DE); and Karl Rudolf Michl, Erkheim (DE)
Assigned to GROB-WERKE GMBH & CO. KG, Mindelheim (DE)
Filed by GROB-WERKE Gmbh & Co. KG, Mindelheim (DE)
Filed on Nov. 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/525,702.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 130 242.8 (DE), filed on Nov. 16, 2020; and application No. 21159734 (EP), filed on Feb. 26, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0158218 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. B23P 19/00 (2006.01); B65G 57/14 (2006.01); H01M 8/1004 (2016.01); H01M 8/2404 (2016.01); H01M 8/2475 (2016.01)
CPC H01M 8/2475 (2013.01) [B65G 57/14 (2013.01); H01M 8/1004 (2013.01); H01M 8/2404 (2016.02)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A manufacturing device configured to manufacture a fuel cell layer structure with alternately arranged first cell components and second cell components, each first cell component being plate component and each second cell component being a membrane component, comprising:
at least one stacking station with at least one stacking device configured to stack the first and the second cell component on top of one another in an alternating manner;
at least one vertical de-stacker, which is configured to be moved between at least one filling station and the at least one stacking station, to accommodate a plurality of first cell components in a vertical arrangement with a lifting and lowering device for lifting and lowering the first cell components and for de-stacking separated first cell components in a vertical direction to the at least one stacking device; and
a lateral feed system configured to laterally feed separated second cell components to the at least one stacking device.