U.S. BATTERY AND FUEL CELL PATENTS

Compiled by Eddie T. Seo
etseo@netway.net
Littleton, CO

Official Gazette, Volume 1283 (June 2004)

U.S. 6,742,554 (20040601), Device for overheat protection for a type 4 compressed gas container, Rainer Immel, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 6,742,650 (20040601), Metal hydride storage canister design and its manufacture, Jefferson YS Yang and Mike Kao, Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd. (TW).

U.S. 6,743,369 (20040601), Method for manufacturing electrode for secondary battery, Daizo Jito and Hisaki Tarui, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,743,410 (20040601), Primary reactor liquid water and air injection for improved management of a fuel processor, Gary M. Robb, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 6,743,535 (20040601), Structure for preventing reverse insertion of a storage battery, Kazuo Yoneyama, Nintendo Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,743,536 (20040601), Fuel cell power system and method of controlling a fuel cell power system, William A. Fuglevand, Relion, Inc.

U.S. 6,743,537 (20040601), Hydrogen gas generating systems, fuel cell systems and methods for stopping operation of fuel cell system, Takashi Shimazu, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,743,538 (20040601), Fuel cell system and method for operating same, Andreas Christen and Jens Thomas Mueller, DaimlerChrysler AG (DE).

U.S. 6,743,539 (20040601), Coolant fan control for fuel cell systems, Bruce J. Clingerman, Donald H. Keskula, and Victor W. Logan, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 6,743,540 (20040601), Method and apparatus for collecting condensate in an integrated fuel cell system, Michael M. Walsh, Michael S. Zanoni, and Robert A. Hoyt, Plug Power Inc.

U.S. 6,743,541 (20040601), Monopolar cell pack of proton exchange membrane fuel cell and direct methanol fuel cell, Hyuk Chang and Chan Lim, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 6,743,542 (20040601), Interfacial and edge seals for unitized electrode assemblies of fuel cell stack assembly, Myron Krasij and Michael J. Rajport Jr., UTC Fuel Cells, LLC.

U.S. 6,743,543 (20040601), Fuel cell using variable porosity gas diffusion material, Sivakumar Muthuswamy, Steven D. Pratt, and Ronald J. Kelley, Motorola, Inc.

U.S. 6,743,544 (20040601), Electric energy storage device, Sung Min Kim, Yong Ho Jung, and Sun Wook Kim, Ness Capacitor Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 6,743,545 (20040601), Closed type battery case, Yu­Huei Huang (TW).

U.S. 6,743,546 (20040601), Laminate sheath type battery, Masaaki Kaneda, Hideaki Yoshio, Yoshitaka Matsumasa, Hiroaki Ichinose, Hitoshi Suzuki, and Shingo Tsuda, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,743,547 (20040601), Pellet process for double current collector screen cathode preparation, Hong Gan, Sally Ann Smesko, and Esther S. Takeuchi, Wilson Greatbatch Ltd.

U.S. 6,743,548 (20040601), Silver­zinc alkaline rechargeable battery (stacking order), Michael Cheiky and Wilson Hago, Zinc Matrix Power, Inc.

U.S. 6,743,549 (20040601), Nonaqueous electrolyte lithium secondary batteries, Christopher Marc Doyle, Andrew Edward Feiring, Paul Gregory Bekiarian, William Brown Farnham, and Susan Kuharcik Choi, EI du Pont de Nemours and Co.

U.S. 6,743,550 (20040601), Double current collector cathode design using chemically similar active materials for alkali metal electrochemical, Hong Gan and Esther S. Takeuchi, Wilson Greatbatch Ltd.

U.S. 6,743,551 (20040601), Alkaline storage battery, Atsumu Imasato and Takaaki Ikemachi, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,743,876 (20040601), Copolymers of vinylidene fluoride and hexafluoropropylene having reduced extractable content and improved solution clarity, Roice Andrus Wille and Michael T. Burchill, Atofina Chemicals, Inc.

U.S. 6,743,877 (20040601), Electrode materials derived from polyquinonic ionic compounds and their use in electrochemical generators, Michel Armand, Christophe Michot, and Nathalie Ravet, ACEP Inc. (CA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (FR), and Universite de Montreal (CA).

U.S. 6,743,947 (20040601), Electrochemically stable onium salts and electrolytes containing such for electrochemical capacitors, Kang Xu, Shengping Ding, and T. Richard Jow, The United States of America.

U.S. 6,744,234 (20040601), Preliminary charging state apparatus, program and method, Shigefumi Odaohhara, Masaki Kobayashi, and Takaaki Aoki, International Business Machines Corp.

U.S. 6,744,235 (20040601), Oxygen isolation and collection for anode protection in a solid-oxide fuel cell stack, Karl J. Haltiner Jr., Subhasish Mukerjee, Diane M. England, Michael T. Faville, Sean M. Kelly, Bernhard Edlinger, and Joachim Tachtler, Delphi Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 6,744,237 (20040601), Hybrid power system for an electric vehicle, Bruce M. Kopf, Jing Song, and Yi Ding, Ford Global Technologies, LLC.

U.S. 6,744,238 (20040601), Method of using a cell, Steven M. Davis, David M. Spillman, and Esther S. Takeuchi, Wilson Greatbatch Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 6,744,698 (20040601), Battery powered electronic device and control method therefor, Shunsuke Koyama, Teruhiko Fujisawa, and Koji Kitazawa, Seiko Epson Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,745,077 (20040601), Electronic impedance transformer for inductively-coupled load stabilization, Glen A. Griffith and Tae W. Hahn, Advanced Bionics Corp.

U.S. 6,745,105 (20040601), Energy distribution network, Matthew J. Fairlie, William J. Stewart, Andrew T. B. Stuart, Steven J. Thorpe, and Charlie Dong, Stuart Energy Systems Corp. (CA).

U.S. 6,745,796 (20040608), Hydrogen fuel transporting hose for fuel-cell powered vehicle, Ayumu Ikemoto and Ryo Hirai, Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,745,799 (20040608), Method for delivering a gas, William A. Fuglevand, Relion, Inc.

U.S. 6,745,801 (20040608), Mobile hydrogen generation and supply system, Joseph Perry Cohen and Tama Maya Copeman, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

U.S. 6,746,250 (20040608), Connection for a distribution network, Reinhold Blutbacher, Ballard Power Systems AG (DE).

U.S. 6,746,494 (20040608), Battery manufacturing method and apparatus, Shoji Karasawa, Yugo Nakagawa, and Hiromi Kajiya, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP) and Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,746,496 (20040608), Compact solid source of hydrogen gas, Stanley H. Kravitz, Andrew M. Hecht, Alan P. Sylwester, and Nelson S. Bell, Sandia Corp.

U.S. 6,746,509 (20040608), Process for producing zinc or zinc alloy powder for battery, Akira Oyama, Tadayoshi Odahara, Seiji Fuchino, Mitsuo Shinoda, and Hisaji Shimomura, Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd. (JP) and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,746,515 (20040608), Method and apparatus for thermal swing adsorption and thermally-enhanced pressure swing adsorption, Robert S. Wegeng, Scot D. Rassat, Ward E. TeGrotenhuis, Kevin Drost, and Vilayanur V. Vishwanathan, Battelle Memorial Institute.

U.S. 6,746,597 (20040608), Supported noble metal nanometer catalyst particles containing controlled (111) crystal face exposure, Bing Zhou and Michael Rueter, Hydrocarbon Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 6,746,627 (20040608), Methods for preparing polyvinylidene fluoride composites, Chunming Niu and Lein Ngaw, Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc.

U.S. 6,746,645 (20040608), High storage capacity, fast kinetics, long cycle-life, hydrogen storage alloys, Stanford R. Ovshinsky and Rosa T. Young, Energy Conversion Devices, Inc.

U.S. 6,746,650 (20040608), Compact, light weight methanol fuel gas autothermal reformer assembly, Roger R. Lesieur, UTC Fuel Cells, LLC.

U.S. 6,746,657 (20040608), Method for reduced methanation, Marco J. Castaldi, Precision Combustion, Inc.

U.S. 6,746,771 (20040608), Impregnated bodies made of expanded graphite, process for producing such bodies and sealing elements, fuel cell components and heat-conducting elements formed of the bodies, Oswin Ottinger, Jurgen Bacher, and Werner Langer, SGL Carbon AG (DE)

U.S. 6,746,788 (20040608), Concentration cells utilizing external fields, Norman K. Borsuk.

U.S. 6,746,789 (20040608), Catalytic humidifier and heater for the fuel stream of a fuel cell, Xuesong Chen, David Frank, Pierre Rivard, and Joe Cargnelli, Hydrogenics Corp. (CA).

U.S. 6,746,790 (20040608), Power system including heat removal unit for providing backup power to one or more loads, Jeffrey A. Colborn, Metallic Power, Inc.

U.S. 6,746,791 (20040608), Nano-ionic products and devices, Tapesh Yadav and Hongxing Hu, NanoProducts Corp.

U.S. 6,746,792 (20040608), Fuel cell separator composition, fuel cell separator and method of manufacture, and solid polymer fuel cell, Shun Hasegawa, Gen Masuda, Yukiko Yano, Kazuo Saito, and Atsushi Hagiwara, Nisshinbo Industries, Inc. (JP).

U.S. 6,746,793 (20040608), Polymer electrolyte fuel cell, Hisaaki Gyoten, Eiichi Yasumoto, Kazuhito Hatoh, Makoto Uchida, Yasushi Sugawara, Teruhisa Kanbara, Junji Morita, Hideo Ohara, Kazufumi Nishida, Osamu Sakai, Yukiyoshi Ono, and Yasuo Takebe, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,746,794 (20040608), Thermal runaway inhibitors, Braja K Mandal and Robert Filler, Tech Drive, Inc.

U.S. 6,746,795 (20040608), Lead­acid safety battery cap, William R Schwarz.

U.S. 6,746,796 (20040608), Electrode-rolled battery and method of manufacturing electrode-rolled battery, Hideto Watanabe and Hiromi Suzuki, NEC Tokin Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,746,797 (20040608), Battery pack having flexible circuit connector, Morgan Rey Benson, Robert Thomas Wendling, and Dianne L. Haworth, Delphi Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 6,746,798 (20040608), Rectangular and sealed battery, Masaru Hiratsuka, Yoshinori Hashimoto, and Takayuki Yamahira, Sony Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,746,799 (20040608), Lithium phosphate composite positive electrode and non-aqueous electrolyte cell, Atsuo Yamada and Takayuki Yamahira, Sony Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,746,800 (20040608), Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Takuya Sunagawa, Hiroyuki Fujimoto, Ryuji Ohshita, and Shin Fujitani, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,746,801 (20040608), Electrode for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery, Noriyuki Tamura, Daizo Jito, Ryuji Ohshita, Masahisa Fujimoto, Maruo Kamino, and Shin Fujitani, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,746,802 (20040608), Electrode for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery, Noriyuki Tamura, Ryuji Ohshita, and Maruo Kamino, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,746,803 (20040608), Composite bodies used as separators in electrochemical cells, Stephan Bauer, Bernd Bronstert, and Helmut Mohwald, BASF Aktiengesellschaft (DE).

U.S. 6,746,804 (20040608), Nonaqueous organic electrolytes for low temperature discharge of rechargeable electrochemical cells, Hong Gan, Esther S. Takeuchi, and Robert Rubino, Wilson Greatbatch Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 6,746,982 (20040608), Porous carbon body for a fuel cell having an electronically conductive hydrophilic agent, Christopher J. Hertel, John A. S. Bett, Foster P. Lamm, and Carl A. Reiser, UTC Fuel Cells, LLC.

U.S. 6,747,077 (20040608), Stabilized metallocene polypropylene, François Gugumus and Nicola Lelli, Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp.

U.S. 6,747,370 (20040608), High-temperature secondary battery based energy storage and power compensation system, Hiroyuki Abe, NGK Insulators, Ltd. (JP) and The Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. (JP).

U.S. 6,747,436 (20040608), Method and apparatus for identifying and charging different types of batteries, Daniele C. Brotto, Blacker & Decker Inc.

U.S. 6,747,437 (20040608), Portable labor-saving battery device for electric vehicle, Chien­Liang Chiu, Wu¹s Tech Co., Ltd. (TW).

U.S. 6,747,438 (20040608), Power supply unit, distributed power supply system and electric vehicle loaded therewith, Akihiko Emori (JP), Takuya Kinoshita (JP), and Hideki Miyazaki (JP).

U.S. 6,747,439 (20040608), Conditioning of a rechargeable battery, Michael Franke, Braun GmbH (DE).

U.S. 6,747,456 (20040608), Electro-chemical deterioration test method and apparatus, Nigel David Scott, Guardian Link Ltd. (GB).

U.S. 6,748,748 (20040615), Hydrogen storage and supply system, Keith Bradley, Jeff D. Wyatt, Jean­Christophe P. Gabriel, and George Gruner, Nanomix, Inc.

U.S. 6,748,793 (20040615), Ultrasound sensing of concentration of methanol’s aqueous solution, Arnold Rabinovich and Daryl Tulimieri, E I du Pont de Nemours and Co and ABB Research Ltd. (CH).

U.S. 6,749,407 (20040615), Method of installing valves in a micro-pump, Chenggang Xie, Joseph W. Bostaph, and Xunhu Dai, Motorola, Inc.

U.S. 6,749,452 (20040615), Fuel cell monitor connector, Matthew K. Hortop, William S. Wheat, and Patricia J. Nelson, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 6,749,648 (20040615), Lithium metal oxides, Sujeet Kumar and Craig R. Horne, NanaGram Corp.

U.S. 6,749,649 (20040615), Method and device for mounting cell, Akihiro Sano, Fumio Daio, and Daisuke Yoshida, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,749,650 (20040615), System and method for multilayer fabrication of lithium polymer batteries and cells, Jose E. Gonzalez and Steven D. Cochran, Delphi Technologies Inc.

U.S. 6,749,713 (20040615), Apparatus and method for separating a fuel cell assembly from a bonding fixture, John Russell Mlinar, 3M Innovative Properties Co.

U.S. 6,749,799 (20040615), Method for preparation of solid state electrochemical device, Aaron T. Crumm and John W. Halloran, Adaptive Materials, Inc.

U.S. 6,749,827 (20040615), Method for growing continuous fiber, Richard E. Smalley, Daniel T. Colbert, Hongjie Dai, Jie Liu, Andrew G Rinzler, Jason H. Hafner, Kenneth A Smith, Ting Guo, Pavel Nikolaev, and Andreas Thess, William Marsh Rice University.

U.S. 6,749,828 (20040615), Process for reforming hydrocarbon, Tetsuya Fukunaga, Idemitsu Kosan Corp Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,749,892 (20040615), Method for fabricating membrane­electrode assembly and fuel cell adopting the membrane­electrode assembly, Hyuk Chang, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 6,749,950 (20040615), Expanded grid, Lu Zhang, Delphi Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 6,749,958 (20040615), Integrated module for solid oxide fuel cell systems, Michael Pastula, Arpad Horvath, Martin Perry, and Dennis Prediger, Global Thermoelectric Inc. (CA).

U.S. 6,749,959 (20040615), Fuel cell gas separator, manufacturing method thereof, and fuel cell, Hiromichi Nakata, Masayoshi Yokoi, Masazumi Onishi, Hideo Aihara, Masashi Murate, and Yoshifumi Kaji, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,749,960 (20040615), Battery pack, battery loading device, power supplying device and electronic equipment, Toshio Takeshita and Masaki Hanzawa, Sony Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,749,961 (20040615), Shutdown battery separator made with a blend of polymer and oligomer, Khuy V. Nguyen and C. Glen Wensley, Celgard Inc.

U.S. 6,749,962 (20040615), Lithium battery having an electrolyte gel using a crosslinked prepolymer to form an epoxy resin, Hyung­gon Noh, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 6,749,963 (20040615), Secondary battery utilizing indole compounds, Masato Kurosaki, Toshihiko Nishiyama, Hiroyuki Kamisuki, Gaku Harada, Yuuji Nakagawa, Shinya Yoshida, Tomoki Nobuta, and Masaya Mitani, NEC Tokin Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,749,964 (20040615), Active positive-electrode material in electrochemical cells, and process for the production of these materials, Lilia Heider, Udo Heider, Natascha Lotz, and Matthias Rothenburger, Merck Patent Gesellschaft Mit Beschrankter Haftung (DE).

U.S. 6,749,965 (20040615), Positive active material for lithium secondary batteries and method of preparing the same, Ho­Jin Kweon, Hyun­Sook Jung, Geun­Bae Kim, and Dong­Gon Park, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 6,749,966 (20040615), Metal vanadium oxide particles, Hariklia Dris Reitz, James P. Buckley, Sujeet Kumar, Yu K. Fortunak, and Xiangxin Bi, NanoGram Devices Corp.

U.S. 6,749,967 (20040615), Positive electrode active material and non-aqueous electrolyte cell, Guohua Li and Atsuo Yamada, Sony Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,750,169 (20040615), Composite electrodes for solid state devices, Debabrata Ghosh, Frank Martel, and Zheng Tang, Global Thermoelectric Inc. (CA).

U.S. 6,750,630 (20040615), Battery temperature control device for controlling the temperature of a battery installed in vehicle which includes an air passage to the battery from a rear air-conditioning unit, Yoshimitsu Inoue and Hiroshi Nonoyama, Denso Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,750,631 (20040615), Method of balancing an electrical battery subjected to discontinuous charging, and a battery management system for implementing the method, Michel Perelle, Alcatel (FR).

U.S. 6,751,084 (20040615), Electric double layer capacitor and method for preparing the same, Yutaka Nakazawa, Ryuichi Kasahara, and Koji Sakata, NEC Tokin Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,751,103 (20040615), Retainer clip, Clas Sivertsen, American Megatrends, Inc.

U.S. 6,751,504 (20040615), System and method for bi-chamber stimulation using dynamically adapted interpulse delay, Richard C. Urso, Loren L. Roy, Adnan Shennib, Patrick V. Williams, and James P. Buckley, Insonus Medical, Inc.

U.S. 6,752,842 (20040622), Manufacture of flexible thin layer electrochemical cell, Shalom Luski and Zvi Nitzan, Power Paper Ltd.

U.S. 6,752,918 (20040622), Method for producing nickel hydroxides, Armin Olbrich, Viktor Stoller, Juliane Meese­Marktscheffel, Frank Schrumpf, Josef Schmoll, and Gerhard Gille, H. C. Starck GmbH (DE).

U.S. 6,752,937 (20040622), Highly conductive molding compounds having an increased distribution of large size graphite particles, Kurt I. Butler, Quantum Composites, Inc.

U.S. 6,752,968 (20040622), Reformer controlling apparatus, Hiroaki Hashigaya and Katsunori Oshiage, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,752,977 (20040622), Process for purifying single-wall carbon nanotubes and compositions thereof, Richard E. Smalley, Robert H. Hauge, and Wan­Ting Chiang, William Marsh Rice University.

U.S. 6,752,979 (20040622), Production of metal oxide particles with nano-sized grains, Peter Cade Talbot, Jose Antonio Alarco, and Geoffrey Alan Edwards, Very Small Particle Co. Pty Ltd. (AU).

U.S. 6,753,036 (20040622), Method for fabrication of electrodes, Alan F. Jankowski, Jeffrey D. Morse, and Randy Barksdale, The Regents of the University of California.

U.S. 6,753,104 (20040622), Lithium secondary battery, Kenshin Kitoh, NGK Insulators, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,753,105 (20040622), Fuel cell system, Wolfram Fleck, Robert D. Merritt, Ed Peters, and Eric Pow, Ballard Power Systems AG (DE).

U.S. 6,753,106 (20040622), Method and apparatus for distributing water in an array of fuel cell stacks, Clarence YF Chow, John Ka Ki Chan, and Adrian James Corless, Ballard Power Systems Inc. (CA).

U.S. 6,753,107 (20040622), Integrated fuel cell system, Wayne W. Huang, Plug Power Inc.

U.S. 6,753,108 (20040622), Energy devices and methods for the fabrication of energy devices, Mark J. Hampden­Smith, Toivo T. Kodas, Plamen Atanassov, Paolina Atanassova, Klaus Kunze, Paul Napolitano, David Dericotte, and Rimple Bhatia, Superior MicroPowders, LLC.

U.S. 6,753,109 (20040622), Alkaline cell with improved cathode, Kirakodu S. Nanjundaswamy, Francis Wang, Jiayu Simon Xue, Cahit Eylem, and James Rozelle, The Gillette Co.

U.S. 6,753,110 (20040622), Cathode active material for lithium electrochemical cells, Yeong­Chang Yoo, Do­Young Seung, and Isobel Davidson, National Research Council of Canada (CA).

U.S. 6,753,111 (20040622), Positive active material for rechargeable lithium batteries and method for preparing same, Ho­Jin Kweon, Jun­Won Suh, and Won­Il Jung, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 6,753,112 (20040622), Positive electrode active material and non-aqueous secondary battery using the same, Yasumasa Ooya, Ryo Sakai, Koshin Tanaka, Kazuki Amemiya, Hajime Takeuchi, Yasuhiro Shirakawa, and Shouta Endou, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP).

U.S. 6,753,113 (20040622), Solid electrolyte cell, Tomitaro Hara, Mashio Shibuya, and Yusuke Suzuki, Sony Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,753,114 (20040622), Composite electrolyte for a rechargeable lithium battery, James K. Jacobs and Sankar Dasgupta, Electrovaya Inc. (CA).

U.S. 6,753,374 (20040622), Rubber compositions and method for increasing the Mooney Scorch value, Martin J Hannon, Robert J. Cornell, and Sung W. Hong, Uniroyal Chemical Co., Inc.

U.S. 6,753,671 (20040622), Recharger for use with a portable electronic device and which includes a proximally located light emitting device, Thomas Patrick Harvey.

U.S. 6,753,672 (20040622), Anode structure having increased contact surface area for metal­air fuel cell battery, Yung­Jen Lin (TW).

U.S. 6,755,077 (20040629), Diagnostic system for identifying fuel injector failure in a fuel cell system, Bruce J. Clingerman, Donald H. Keskula, and Julie A. Stuart, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 6,755,219 (20040629), Method and apparatus for supplying fuel for a hydrogen-operated vehicle, Dirk Bolle, Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG (DE).

U.S. 6,755,225 (20040629), Transportable hydrogen refueling station, Alan Niedwiecki, Neel Sirosh, and Andy Abele, Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc.

U.S. 6,755,399 (20040629), Humidifier, Hiroshi Shimanuki, Toshikatsu Katagiri, Yoshio Kusano, and Motohiro Suzuki, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,755,669 (20040629), Elongated elastomeric connector and method, Carl M. Marsiglio and Robert L. Fuss, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 6,755,873 (20040629), Gel electrolyte battery, Toru Mizutani, Takashi Ono, and Masayuki Shida, Sony Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,755,874 (20040629), Plate making process for lead acid battery, Rongrong Chen, Shay Harrison, and Wellington Y Kwok, Delphi Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 6,755,930 (20040629), Method and apparatus for attaching separator to electrode plate, Shinsuke Fukuda, Mitsugu Takaki, and Yoshihiro Bouki, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP) and Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,755,955 (20040629), Catalytic converter and method for producing a catalytic converter, Hubertus Biegert, Gabriele Stab, Gabor Toth, and Peter Urban, DaimlerChrysler AG (DE).

U.S. 6,756,020 (20040629), Combined component for afterburning anode exhaust gases from a fuel cell system and for vaporizing educts delivered by the fuel cell system, Dietmar Heil, Bruno Motzet, Konrad Schwab, Alois Tischler, and Marc Weisser, Ballard Power Systems AG (DE).

U.S. 6,756,109 (20040629), Combinatorial electrochemical deposition and testing system, Christopher J. Warren, Robert C Haushalter, and Leonid Matsiev, Symyx Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 6,756,141 (20040629), Three-electrode fuel cell, Michael A. Miller and Craig M. Wall, Southwest Research Institute.

U.S. 6,756,142 (20040629), Fuel cell using non-linear positive temperature coefficient material, Sivakumar Muthuswamy, Steven D. Pratt, and Ronald J. Kelley, Motorola, Inc.

U.S. 6,756,143 (20040629), Fuel cell system and method for starting a fuel cell system, Wolfram Birk, Ballard Power Systems AG (DE).

U.S. 6,756,144 (20040629), Integrated recuperation loop in fuel cell stack, Farrokh Issacci and Rajiv Doshi, Hybrid Power Generation Systems, LLC.

U.S. 6,756,145 (20040629), Electrode and interconnect for miniature fuel cells using direct methanol feed, Sekharipuram R. Narayanan, Thomas I. Valdez, and Filiberto Clara, California Institute of Technology.

U.S. 6,756,146 (20040629), Apparatus and method for automatically stacking fuel cell material layers, John Russell Mlinar and Gary William Schukar, 3M Innovative Properties Co.

U.S. 6,756,147 (20040629), Membrane electrode unit comprising an integrated sealing edge, Matthias Bronold and Frank Mai, Heliocentris Energiesysteme GmbH (DE).

U.S. 6,756,148 (20040629), Fuel cell system, Nobuhiko Hojo, Aoi Tanaka, Satoshi Shibutani, and Yukihiro Okada, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,756,149 (20040629), Electrochemical fuel cell with non-uniform fluid flow design, Shanna Denine Knights and David Pentreath Wilkinson, Ballard Power Systems Inc. (CA).

U.S. 6,756,150 (20040629), Fuel cell having a non-electrolytic layer, Chockkalingham Karuppaiah and Yaobang Wu, Plug Power Inc.

U.S. 6,756,151 (20040629), Unidirectional draining device, Shijian Zhou, Timothy H. Kline, Donald F. Turner, and James R. Nowakowski, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 6,756,152 (20040629), Electrode for alkaline storage battery and method of manufacturing the same, Tetsuyuki Murata, Tadashi Ise, Teruhiko Imoto, and Yasuhiko Ikeda, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,756,153 (20040629), Binder composition for electrode for lithium-ion secondary battery and utilization thereof, Haruhisa Yamamoto and Akira Nakayama, Zeon Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,756,154 (20040629), Cathode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell and process for producing the same, Hideaki Maeda, Shoichi Fujino, Mitsuaki Hatatani, Hiroyasu Watanabe, Norimiki Sugiyama, and Hideaki Sadamura, Toda Kogyo Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,756,155 (20040629), Positive active material for rechargeable lithium batteries and method of preparing same, Ho­Jin Kweon, Seung­Kee Kim, Sang­Moon Hwang, and Young­Bae Roh, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 6,756,156 (20040629), Rectangular alkaline storage battery, Yasuhiko Ikeda, Masao Takee, Teruhiko Imoto, Masao Inoue, Tetsuyuki Murata, and Atsutoshi Ako, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,756,571 (20040629), System and method for compensation of contamination of a heated element in a heated element gas flow sensor, George Saikalis and Shigeru Oho, Hitachi, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,756,764 (20040629), Portable jumper system and method, John S. Smith and Ty N. MacAlpine.

U.S. 6,756,765 (20040629), System and method for charging users to recharge power supplies in portable devices, Gert Bruning, Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV (NL).

U.S. 6,756,766 (20040629), Autoclavable battery pack, David L Miller, Eagle­Pitcher Industries, Inc.

U.S. 6,756,767 (20040629), Method for charging and discharging battery based on charging capacity, Toshimichi Kawai, NEC Corp. (JP).

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