Conductive member, fuel cell, and electrolysis device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025096283-A1
Application number	US-202218580813-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 29, 2022
Priority date	Jul 21, 2021
Publication date	Mar 20, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

This conductive member includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer is a porous body. The second layer is laminated on the first layer. The first layer is used for a current collector for a fuel cell or an electrode for an electrolysis device. The porosity of the second layer is lower than the porosity of the first layer. The porosity of the second layer is less than or equal to 5%.

First claim

1 . A conductive member comprising:
a first layer that is a porous body; and a second layer laminated on the first layer, wherein the first layer is used for a current collector for a fuel cell or an electrode for an electrolysis device, the second layer has a porosity lower than a porosity of the first layer, and the porosity of the second layer is less than or equal to 5%.

2 . The conductive member according to claim 1 , further comprising a third layer that is a porous body, the third layer being located on a side of the second layer opposite to a side where the first layer is located and being laminated on the second layer, wherein
the third layer has a porosity higher than the porosity of the second layer, and the second layer has no through hole.

3 . The conductive member according to claim 2 , wherein the porosity of each of the first layer and the third layer is greater than or equal to 50%.

4 . The conductive member according to claim 2 , wherein a ratio of a total thickness of the first layer and the third layer to a total thickness of the first layer, the second layer, and the third layer is greater than or equal to 10% and less than or equal to 90%.

5 . The conductive member according to claim 2 , wherein a material constituting the first layer, a material constituting the second layer, and a material constituting the third layer each contain at least one selected from the group consisting of nickel, cobalt, manganese, iron, copper, chromium, aluminum, zinc, titanium, and tin, and alloys thereof.

6 . The conductive member according to claim 2 , wherein at least one of a surface of the first layer on a side opposite to a side where the second layer is located, a surface of the first layer on the side where the second layer is located, a surface of the third layer on a side opposite to a side where the second layer is located, and a surface of the third layer on the side where the second layer is located has a groove.

7 . The conductive member according to claim 2 , wherein at least one of the first layer or the third layer has a through hole.

8 . The conductive member according to claim 1 , wherein the second layer has a plurality of through holes.

9 . The conductive member according to claim 8 , wherein the first layer has a plurality of recesses in a surface facing the through holes of the second layer.

10 . The conductive member according to claim 8 , wherein a material constituting the first layer and a material constituting the second layer each contain at least one selected from the group consisting of nickel, cobalt, manganese, iron, copper, chromium, aluminum, zinc, titanium, and tin, and alloys thereof.

11 . The conductive member according to claim 1 , wherein
the first layer has: a plurality of first holes having a diameter greater than or equal to 1 mm; a plurality of second holes having a diameter greater than or equal to 100 μm and less than 1 mm; and a plurality of third holes having a diameter less than 100 μm.

12 . A fuel cell comprising the conductive member according to claim 2 .

13 . An electrolysis device comprising the conductive member according to claim 8 .

Assignees

• Sumitomo Electric Industries

Inventors

• Higashino Takahiro
• Noda Yohei
• Numata Koma
• Takeda Kosei
• Mizuhara Naho
• Okuno Kazuki
• Majima Masatoshi

Classifications

• H01M8/0258

  characterised by the configuration of channels, e.g. by the flow field of the reactant or coolant · CPC title

• H01M8/0232

  Metals or alloys · CPC title

• C25B1/04

  by electrolysis of water · CPC title

• C25B11/055

  characterised by the substrate or carrier material · CPC title

• C25B11/031

  Porous electrodes · CPC title