THIN STAINLESS STEEL SHEET FOR SOLID POLYMER FUEL CELL SEPARATOR

A stainless steel sheet used for a separator of a polymer electrolyte fuel cell, wherein the steel sheet has a volume ratio of M2B boride-based metal precipitates of 8% or higher and a volumetric-basis particle-size frequency distribution of M2B boride-based metal precipitates having sphere-equivale...

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Hauptverfasser:	YAZAWA, Takeo, ADACHI, Kazuhiko, TARUTANI, Yoshio, HAMADA, Ryuji, SEKI, Akira, IMAMURA, Junko
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng ; fre ; ger
Schlagworte:	ALLOYS BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS CHEMISTRY ELECTRICITY FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUSMETALS OR ALLOYS MAKING METAL MALLEABLE BY DECARBURISATION, TEMPERING OR OTHERTREATMENTS METALLURGY METALLURGY OF IRON MODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSIONOF CHEMICAL INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
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Zusammenfassung:	A stainless steel sheet used for a separator of a polymer electrolyte fuel cell, wherein the steel sheet has a volume ratio of M2B boride-based metal precipitates of 8% or higher and a volumetric-basis particle-size frequency distribution of M2B boride-based metal precipitates having sphere-equivalent diameters of 6.72 µm or less of 99.5% or higher, in a surface layer which has a depth of 0.2t from at least one of surfaces (t is an overall thickness of the steel sheet), and the steel sheet has an apparent density of 0.995 or higher, assuming a real density to be 1. A polymer electrolyte fuel cell in which the stainless steel sheet is used for a separator is given an excellent cell performance without high-cost surface treatment such as expensive gold plating for the reduction of the contact resistance of a surface.