Integrated fluorine gasket manufactured by injection molding for hydrogen fuel cells

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9640807-B2
Application number	US-201213715552-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 14, 2012
Priority date	Sep 17, 2012
Publication date	May 2, 2017
Grant date	May 2, 2017

Abstract

Disclosed is an integrated fluorine gasket manufactured by injection molding for hydrogen fuel cells. In particular, a fluorine compound having a fluorine content of about 60 to 75 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of a fluoroelastomer is disposed in a gasket. The resulting fluorine gasket is integrated with a thin bipolar plate having a thickness of about 200 μm or less to have a thickness of about 750 μm or less by injection molding on the thin bipolar plate and by cross-linking.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An integrated fluorine gasket manufactured by injection molding for hydrogen fuel cells,
wherein the integrated fluorine gasket comprises a fluorine compound and a thin bipolar plate, wherein the thin bipolar plate has a thickness of about 200 μm or less, wherein the fluorine compound is injection molded on the thin bipolar plate and first cross-linked, wherein the integrated fluorine gasket has a thickness of about 750 μm or less,
wherein the fluorine compound comprising a fluoroelastomer has a fluorine content of about 60 to 75 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the fluoroelastomer,
wherein the fluorine compound has Mooney viscosity of about 10 to 24 in a condition of ISO 289-1(2005): ML(1+4)/125° C., and
wherein the fluorine compound has a scorch time of about 1.7 to 3.0 minutes that is measured by using a moving die rheometer (MDR) based on ISO 6502:1999(E) in a condition of temperature about 185° C./oscillation amplitude 0.5°/time 10 minutes.

2. The integrated fluorine gasket of claim 1 , wherein, the fluorine compound is secondly post-cross-linked at a temperature of at least 200° C.

3. The integrated fluorine gasket of claim 1 , wherein the fluorine compound has shore A hardness of about 35 to 65 in a condition of ASTM D2240.

4. The integrated fluorine gasket of claim 1 , wherein the fluorine compound has about a 90% cure time of about 3.5 to 5.0 minutes that is measured by using a moving die rheometer (MDR) based on ISO 6502:1999(E) in a condition of temperature 185° C./oscillation amplitude 0.5°/time 10 minutes.

5. The integrated fluorine gasket of claim 1 , wherein the fluorine compound has ΔM of at least 10.5 dN·m that is a difference between highest torque and minimum torque by using a moving die rheometer (MDR) based on ISO 6502:1999(E) in a condition of temperature 185° C./oscillation amplitude 0.5°/time 10 minutes.

6. The integrated fluorine gasket of claim 1 , wherein the fluorine compound has a filling percentage of spider mold flow of 75% or more by using a 1.6 mm-sprue in a condition of temperature 180° C./pressure 6 MPa/time 7 minutes.

7. The integrated fluorine gasket of claim 1 , wherein the fluorine gasket formed from the fluorine compound on the bipolar plate has a compression set of about 4% or less as a fluorine gasket in a condition of ASTM D395 (Method B, 25% Deflection, 150° C./72 hours).

8. The integrated fluorine gasket of claim 1 , wherein fluorine gasket formed from the fluorine compound on the bipolar plate has a compression set of about 9% or less as a fluorine gasket in a condition of ASTM D395 (Method B, 25% Deflection, 150° C./336 hours).

9. The integrated fluorine gasket of claim 1 , wherein the fluorine gasket formed from the fluorine compound on the bipolar plate comprises a fluorine gasket in which, when a degree of deformation of the thin bipolar plate is measured in 15 positions of the thin bipolar plate by using a contour measuring device, wherein the bipolar plate has an average value of degrees of deformation of less than 60 μm.

10. The integrated fluorine gasket of claim 1 , wherein the fluorine gasket formed from the fluorine compound on the bipolar plate has compressibility of about 65 to 85%.

11. The integrated fluorine gasket of claim 1 , wherein the fluoroelastomer comprises binary copolymer containing vinylidene fluoride (VDF) and hexafluoropropene (HFP).

12. An integrated fluorine gasket manufactured by injection molding for hydrogen fuel cells,
wherein the integrated fluorine gasket comprises a fluorine compound and a thin bipolar plate, wherein the thin bipolar plate has a thickness of about 200 μm or less, wherein the fluorine compound is injection molded on the thin bipolar plate and first cross-linked, wherein the integrated fluorine gasket has a thickness of about 750 μm or less,
wherein the fluorine compound comprising a fluoroelastomer has a fluorine content of about 60 to 75 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the fluoroelastomer,
wherein the fluorine compound has Mooney viscosity of about 10 to 24 in a condition of ISO 289-1(2005): ML(1+4)/125° C.,
wherein the fluorine compound has ΔM of at least 10.5 dN·m that is a difference between highest torque and minimum torque by using a moving die rheometer (MDR) based on ISO 6502:1999(E) in a condition of temperature 185° C./oscillation amplitude 0.5°/time 10 minutes.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Donga Mfg Corp
• Du Pont

Inventors

• Hong Bo Ki
• Jeong Byeong Heon
• Ko Seung Kyung
• Bowers Stephen
• Lee Ho Jin
• Choi Yoon Gue

Classifications

• H01M50/19

  characterised by the material · CPC title

• H01M8/0286

  Processes for forming seals · CPC title

• H01M8/0284 Primary

  Organic resins; Organic polymers · CPC title

• H01M2008/1095

  Fuel cells with polymeric electrolytes · CPC title

• Y02E60/50

  Fuel cells · CPC title