U.S. BATTERY AND FUEL CELL PATENTS

Official Gazette, Volume 1299 (October 2005)

U.S. 6,951,576 (20051004), Wound element electrode assembly design for use in prismatic case electrochemical cells, Esther S. Takeuchi, Wilson Greatbatch Ltd.

U.S. 6,951,610 (20051004), Method and device for producing aqueous iodine and other halogen solutions, John Alex Leonard (CA) and Maurice Tinkler (CA).

U.S. 6,951,666 (20051004), Precursor compositions for the deposition of electrically conductive features, Toivo T. Kodas, Mark J. Hampden-Smith, Karel Vanheusden, Hugh Denham, Aaron D. Stump, Allen B. Schult, Paolina Atanassova, and Klaus Kunze, Cabot Corporation.

U.S. 6,951,697 (20051004), Integrated systems for use with fuel cells, and methods, Eivind Stenersen, Donaldson Company, Inc.

U.S. 6,951,698 (20051004), Fuel cell stack assembly, George R. King, The Texas A&M University System.

U.S. 6,951,699 (20051004), Non-aqueous secondary battery and its control method, Shizukuni Yata, Haruo Kikuta, Hajime Kinoshita, and Shiro Kato, Osaka Gas Company Limited (JP).

U.S. 6,952,103 (20051004), Circuit and method for detecting insulation faults, Ulrich Herb and Hans-Georg Hornung, DaimlerChrysler AG (DE).

U.S. 6,953,009 (20051011), Method and apparatus for vaporizing fuel for a reformer fuel cell system, Michael J. Reinke, Jonathan Wattelet, Mark G. Voss, Marc Weisser, Bruno Motzet, Sven Thumm, and Dennis C. Granetzke, Modine Manufacturing Company.

U.S. 6,953,099 (20051011), Body structure of fuel cell vehicle, Satoshi Kawasaki and Tohru Ono, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,953,100 (20051011), Method and apparatus to regulate the supply of power to an electric drive using a hybrid energy supply system in a vehicle, Markus Aberle, Joachim Blum, Mathias Boehmisch, and Thomas Schetter, Ballard Power Systems AG (DE).

U.S. 6,953,117 (20051011), Sales packaging for electric storage batteries, Herbert Schein, Torsten Schmerer, Asela Jayampathy, Helmut Hewelt, Heinrich Stelzig, and Kuno Gross, Varta Microbattery GmbH (DE).

U.S. 6,953,492 (20051011), Membrane technology to reduce nitrogen in natural gas, Richard A. Callahan, Enerfex, Inc.

U.S. 6,953,497 (20051011), Hydrogen purification devices, components and fuel processing systems containing the same, David J. Edlund, Charles R. Hill, William A. Pledger, and R. Todd Studebaker, IdaTech, LLC.

U.S. 6,953,532 (20051011), Method of polishing a lanthanide substrate, Jui-Kun Lee and Ronald E. Myers, Cabot Microelectronics Corporation.

U.S. 6,953,561 (20051011), Device for the selective oxidation of a substance stream, Matthias Wolfsteiner, Ballard Power Systems AG (DE).

US 6,953,566 (20051011), Process for preparing cathode material for lithium batteries, Chandrasekaran Ramasamy, Vasudevan Thiagarajan, Mani Ariyanan, and Gangadharan Ramaiyer, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (IN).

U.S. 6,953,630 (20051011), Fuel cell anomaly detection method and apparatus, Brian Wells, Ballard Power Systems Inc. (CA).

U.S. 6,953,631 (20051011), Method and apparatus for operating polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell below the freezing point of water, In Hwan Oh, Jae Jun Ko, Heung Yong Ha, Seong-Ahn Hong, Tae Won Lim, Ki Chun Lee, Soo Whan Kim, and Jong Hyun Lee, Hyundai Motor Company (KR) and Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KR).

U.S. 6,953,632 (20051011), Fuel cell stack and a method of operating the same, Katsumi Hayashi and Hideo Kato, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,953,633 (20051011), Fiber cooling of fuel cells, Ronald Scott Bunker, General Electric Company.

U.S. 6,953,634 (20051011), Method for manufacturing composite membranes, Werner A Goedel, Manfred Jaumann, Martin Moeller, and Assiz Muzzafarow, DaimlerChrysler AG (DE).

U.S. 6,953,635 (20051011), Humidifier for fuel cell, Motohiro Suzuki, Hiroshi Shimanuki, Toshikatsu Katagiri, and Yoshio Kusano, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,953,636 (20051011), Press separator for fuel cell made of stainless steel press formed in contiguous corrugations, Teruyuki Ohtani, Makoto Tsuji, and Masao Utsunomiya, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,953,637 (20051011), Catalytic hydrogen vent filter for batteries, Robert G. Hockaday, Patrick S. Turner, Zachary R. Bradford, Marc D. DeJohn, Carlos J. Navas, F. Wade Uhrich, Heathcliff L. Vaz, and L. Luke Vazul, Energy Related Devices, Inc.

U.S. 6,953,638 (20051011), Fluid-cooled battery pack system, Kiwamu Inui and Toyohiko Etoh, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP) and Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,953,639 (20051011), Heavy metal-free rechargeable zinc negative electrode for an alkaline storage cell, Ramesh C. Kainthla, David J. Manko, and Charles Sesock, Rechargeable Battery Corporation.

U.S. 6,953,640 (20051011), Graphite particles and lithium secondary battery using the same as negative electrode, Yoshito Ishii, Tatsuya Nishida, Atsushi Fujita, and Kazuo Yamada, Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,953,641 (20051011), Battery grid, Yu-Lin Chen, Johnson Controls Technology Company.

U.S. 6,953,642 (20051011), Ion conductor structural body, process for producing said ion conductor structural body, rechargeable battery provided with said ion conductor structural body and process for producing said rechargeable battery, Tomoya Yamamoto, Soichiro Kawakami, and Toshifumi Akasaka, Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,953,873 (20051011), Low-temperature hydrocarbon production from oxygenated hydrocarbons, Randy D. Cortright and James A. Dumesic, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.

U.S. 6,954,051 (20051011), Battery charger and charging method, Danh T. Trinh, Paul S. White, and Daniele C. Brotto, Black & Decker Inc.

U.S. 6,955,187 (20051018), Zinc-air battery control valve, A. David Johnson, TiNi Alloy Company.

U.S. 6,955,694 (20051018), Electrochemical double layer capacitor having carbon powder electrodes, Priya Bendale, Manuel R. Malay, John M. Dispennette, Chenniah Nanjundiah, and Earl Chaney, Maxwell Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 6,955,712 (20051018), Proton-conducting polymer with acid groups in side chains, preparation method thereof, polymer membrane manufactured using the polymer, and fuel cell using the polymer membrane, Chong-bok Yoon, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 6,955,795 (20051018), Method for producing lithium hexafluorophosphate, Hirohisa Kikuyama, Toshirou Fukudome, Masahide Waki, and Tomoyuki Deguchi, Stella Chemifa Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,955,859 (20051018), Battery pack system, Tadao Kimura and Toshiaki Nakanishi, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,955,860 (20051018), Control of start-up combustor for fuel cell power plant, Tadashi Matoba, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,955,861 (20051018), Fuel cell system, and method of protecting a fuel cell from freezing, Koudai Yoshizawa, Akihiro Iiyama, Shugo Higashi, and Patrick L. Hagans, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP) and UTC Fuel Cells, LLC.

U.S. 6,955,862 (20051018), Fuel cell block, Herbert Hartnack, Josef Lersch, and Arno Mattejat, Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (DE).

U.S. 6,955,863 (20051018), Dual-purpose compartment for a hybrid battery and fuel cell powered device, Heather N. Bean and Mark N. Robins, Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP.

U.S. 6,955,864 (20051018), Medical device battery pack with active status indication, Gintaras A. Vaisnys, Giovanni C. Meier, and Glenn W. Laub, Defibtech, LLC.

U.S. 6,955,865 (20051018), Graft polymerization, separators, and batteries including the separators, Wai Ming Choi, Hollingsworth & Vose Company.

U.S. 6,955,866 (20051018), Coated lithium electrodes, Yevgeniy S Nimon, May-Ying Chu, and Steven J. Visco, PolyPlus Battery Company.

U.S. 6,955,867 (20051018), Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell and, deterioration-preventing agent for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell and additive for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell for use therein, Masashi Otsuki, Shigeki Endo, and Takao Ogino, Bridgestone Corporation (JP).

U.S. 6,956,353 (20051018), Universal battery charger for cellular telephones and other battery operated devices, Orrin Edward Klitzner.

U.S. 6,956,354 (20051018), Battery charger, Sen Nen Lie, Kolvin Industries Ltd (HK).

U.S. 6,956,355 (20051018), Self-diagnosis system for an energy storage device, Jean-Pierre Vaillancourt, Frederic Lague, Monique Richard, Sebastien Geoffroy, Michel Parent, Yves Choquette, and Estelle Potvin, Avestor Limited Partnership (CA).

U.S. 6,956,356 (20051018), Apparatus for improving protection of a battery pack in a very low power state, Garry Ross Elder, Texas Instruments Incorporated.

U.S. 6,956,357 (20051018), Charging apparatus and charging method, Tamiji Nagai, Kazuo Yamazaki, and Tadahisa Yamamoto, Sony Corporation (JP).

U.S. 6,956,487 (20051018), Battery charging status indication circuit, John E. Herrmann and Michael Geren, Motorola, Inc.

U.S. 6,958,087 (20051025), Gas separator fixing structure and gas separating device using the same, Kenji Suzuki, NGK Insulators, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,958,117 (20051025), Fuel for use in a fuel cell system, Kenichirou Saitou, Iwao Anzai, Osamu Sadakane, and Michiro Matsubara, Nippon Oil Corporation (JP).

U.S. 6,958,139 (20051025), Active material for rechargeable batteries, Oskar Glemser and Sven Albrecht, HC Starck GmbH & Co. KG (DE).

U.S. 6,958,195 (20051025), Steam generator for a PEM fuel cell power plant, Richard J. Assarabowski, Sean P. Breen, Steven A. Lozyniak, William T. Unkert, Joseph B. Wysocki, and Masaki M. Yokose, UTC Fuel Cells, LLC.

U.S. 6,958,196 (20051025), Porous electrode, solid oxide fuel cell, and method of producing the same, Raymond J. Gorte and John M. Vohs, Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania.

U.S. 6,958,197 (20051025), Control system for sodium-sulfur battery, Tomio Tamakoshi, NGK Insulators, Ltd. (JP) and The Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. (JP).

U.S. 6,958,198 (20051025), Non-aqueous electrochemical apparatus, Kazuya Iwamoto, Takafumi Oura, Kumiko Sonoda, Makino Hatazaki, Hiroshi Yoshizawa, and Shinji Nakanishi, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,958,199 (20051025), Battery, Seiji Nemoto, Japan Storage Battery Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,958,200 (20051025), Nickel-metal hydride storage battery and assembly of the same, Fumio Kato, Futoshi Tanigawa, and Kohji Yuasa, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,958,308 (20051025), Deposition of dispersed metal particles onto substrates using supercritical fluids, Garth Desmond Brown, Columbian Chemicals Company.

U.S. 6,958,590 (20051025), Temperature compensated battery charger current, Jarmo Antero Vaananen, National Semiconductor Corporation.

U.S. 6,958,591 (20051025), Battery charging safety circuit for simultaneous startup and rapid surge current clamping, Gregory J. Smith, National Semiconductor Corporation.

U.S. 6,959,249 (20051025), Load following algorithm for a fuel cell based system, Bruce Jeffrey Clingerman, Kiran Mallavarapu, and Akbar Chowdhury, General Motors Corporation.