U.S. BATTERY AND FUEL CELL PATENTS

Official Gazette, Volume 1316 (March 2007)



U.S. 7,185,724 (20070306), Battery support structure, Larry Dupuis, Dragan Stojkovic, and Matt Happy, Ford Global Technologies, LLC.

U.S. 7,186,309 (20070306), Method for preparing composite flexible graphite material, Robert Angelo Mercuri, Jeremy Klug, Matthew George Getz, and Thomas William Weber, Advanced Energy Technology Inc.

U.S. 7,186,352 (20070306), Microfluidic systems with embedded materials and structures and method thereof, Jeffrey D. Morse, Klint A. Rose, Mariam Maghribi, William Benett, Peter Krulevitch, Julie Hamilton, Robert T. Graff, and Alan Jankowski, The Regents of the University of California.

U.S. 7,186,358 (20070306), Polymer dopants, Iain McCulloch, Martin Heeney, Mark Giles, Maxim Shkunov, Steven Tierney, and Clare Bailey, Merck Patent Gesellschaft (DE).

U.S. 7,186,368 (20070306), Method for producing an electrode that has a temperature-stabilized conductivity, Dimitrios Simwonis, Frank Tietz, and Hans-Peter Buchkremer, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (DE).

U.S. 7,186,396 (20070306), Method for hydrogen storage and delivery, Buddy D. Ratner and Esmaeel Naeemi, Asemblon, Inc.

U.S. 7,186,473 (20070306), Battery with built-in load leveling, Lih-Ren Shiue, Abel Sun, and Hsing-Chen Chung, Luxon Energy Devices Corp. (TW).

U.S. 7,186,474 (20070306), Nanocomposite compositions for hydrogen storage and methods for supplying hydrogen to fuel cells, Bor Z. Jang, Nanotek Instruments, Inc.

U.S. 7,186,475 (20070306), Unit cell for solid oxide electrolyte type fuel cell and related manufacturing method, Itaru Shibata, Keiko Kushibiki, Fuminori Satou, Mitsugu Yamanaka, Makoto Uchiyama, and Masaharu Hatano, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,186,476 (20070306), One piece bipolar plate with spring seals, Jeffrey A. Rock, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 7,186,477 (20070306), Header for rechargeable lithium batteries, Steven K. Lei, E-One Moli Energy (Canada) Ltd. (CA).

U.S. 7,186,478 (20070306), Electrochemical device, Jay M. Forlino, Andrew J. Manning, and Eran Turi, Lithium Technology Corp.

U.S. 7,186,479 (20070306), Thin film battery and method of manufacture, Victor Krasnov, Kai-Wei Nieh, and Su-Jen Ting, Front Edge Technology, Inc.

U.S. 7,186,665 (20070306), Production of low-temperature fuel cell electrodes, Michiel Pieter De-Heer and Frank Albert De Bruijn, Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland (NL).

U.S. 7,187,156 (20070306), Battery charger, Toshiki Nakasho and Eiji Satsuma, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,188,519 (20070313), Device and method for measuring the flow and at least one material parameter of a fluid, Mark Hornung, Jens Kubasch, Moritz Lechner, and Felix Mayer, Sensirion AG (CH).

U.S. 7,189,047 (20070313), Apparatus for moving a battery, Roy Kuipers and Min Chul Kim, Tyco Electronics Power Systems, Inc.

U.S. 7,189,122 (20070313), Hand lever battery terminal connector, Erik Freitag, Royal Die & Stamping Co., Inc.

U.S. 7,189,123 (20070313), Lawn and garden battery clamp, Charles M. Orange and Steve Eller, Batlock, LLC.

U.S. 7,189,364 (20070313), Hydrogen sensor, Norihiko Nadanami, Tomonori Kondo, Masaya Watanabe, Ryuji Inoue, Noboru Ishida, and Takafumi Oshima, NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,189,371 (20070313), Fuel reforming system, Yasukazu Iwasaki, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,189,373 (20070313), Carbon monoxide removal from reformate gas, Ikuhiro Taniguchi and Hiroaki Hashigaya, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,189,382 (20070313), Methods for the production of hydrogen, Leonid Grigorian, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,189,428 (20070313), Method for synthesizing thin film electrodes, Timothy J. Boyle, Sandia Corp.

U.S. 7,189,462 (20070313), Block copolymer, its composition and film made of it, Masamitsu Matsui, Hideki Watanabe, Jun Yoshida, and Hisakazu Hoshino, Denki Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,189,467 (20070313), Fuel cell system, Keisuke Wakabayashi and Yasukazu Iwasaki, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,189,468 (20070313), Lightweight direct methanol fuel cell, Michael G. Izenson, Christopher J. Crowley, and Wayde H. Affleck, Creare Inc.

U.S. 7,189,469 (20070313), Fuel cell assembly and method of making the same, Gary David Tarver, Hewlett-Packard Development Co., LP.

U.S. 7,189,470 (20070313), Sealing materials and devices utilizing such materials, Jeffrey E. Cortright, Lisa A. Lamberson, Pamela A. Maurey, and Robert M. Morena, Corning Inc.

U.S. 7,189,471 (20070313), Solid oxide MEMS-based fuel cells, Alan F. Jankowksi and Jeffrey D. Morse, The Regents of the University of California.

U.S. 7,189,472 (20070313), Fuel cell, electrode for fuel cell and a method of manufacturing the same, Seiichi Suenaga, Maki Yonetsu, Norihiro Tomimatsu, Hideyuki Ohzu, Yasuhiro Goto, and Yoshihiko Nakano, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP).

U.S. 7,189,473 (20070313), Battery venting system, Roger Q. Smith and Xiao Ping Liu, Eastway Fair Co. (VG).

U.S. 7,189,474 (20070313), Battery pack, Shinji Hamada and Toyohiko Eto, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP) and Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,189,475 (20070313), Lithium secondary battery, Tsuyoshi Sasaki, Yoshio Ukyo, Hideyuki Nakano, and Masao Kohzaki, Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho (JP).

U.S. 7,189,476 (20070313), Rechargeable lithium cell having an anode comprised of carbon nanotubes, William John Macklin and Derek John Fray, ABSL Power Solutions Ltd. (GB).

U.S. 7,189,477 (20070313), Low temperature electrochemical cells, Yuriy V. Mikhaylik, Sion Power Corp.

U.S. 7,189,478 (20070313), Lithium secondary battery, Tsuyoshi Iijima, Atsushi Sano, and Satoshi Maruyama, TDK Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,189,572 (20070313), Method for measuring water content of fuel cell based on conductivity of electrolyte, Tomonori Imamura, Toshiyuki Kawai, and Kunio Okamoto, DENSO Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,189,789 (20070313), Curable fluoropolyether composition and rubber article, Noriyuki Koike, Takashi Matsuda, and Yasunori Sakano, Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,190,147 (20070313), Battery with complete discharge device, Mike Gileff and Maurice J. Brulé, Eagle-Picher Technologies, LLC.

U.S. 7,190,148 (20070313), Overcharge/overdischarge detection apparatus, overcharge/overdischarge detection circuit, and semiconductor apparatus, Kazuhiro Ooshita and Akira Ikeuchi, Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,190,171 (20070313), Detecting method and detecting apparatus for detecting internal of rechargeable battery, rechargeable battery pack having said detecting apparatus therein, apparatus having said detecting apparatus therein, program in which said detecting method is incorporated, and medium in which said program is stored, Soichiro Kawakami and Yasusaburo Degura, Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,190,568 (20070313), Electrically conductive fuel cell contact materials, Anthony Wood, Zheng Tang, and Tahir Joia, Versa Power Systems Ltd. (CA).

U.S. 7,191,077 (20070313), Smart battery charging system, method, and computer program product, John Carl Mese, Nathan J. Peterson, Rod David Waltermann, and Arnold S. Weksler, Lenovo Singapore Pte Ltd. (SG).

U.S. 7,191,502 (20070320), Current collector with penetrating holes of complicated shape for use in a secondary battery and manufacturing process thereof, Koichi Ashizawa and Atsushi Mori, Nippon Foil Mfg Co., Ltd. (JP) and Nippaku Sangyo Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,191,808 (20070320), Driver interactive system for reducing the possibility of a static discharge during the refill of high pressure storage tanks in hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicles, Steven R. Mathison, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,192,063 (20070320), Metallic tubular hose having a rubber or resin hard material layer, Yuji Takagi and Minoru Hiramatsu, Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,192,319 (20070320), Insulated cable termination assembly and method of fabrication, Naeem Rahman, Anthony Czyz, and Mark Steven Hann, Cooper Technologies Co.

U.S. 7,192,458 (20070320), Process, control system and apparatus for the distribution of air in a fuel cell/fuel processor system, John R. Harness, Gavin P. Towler, Kurt M. Vanden Bussche, John J. Senetar, and Daniel R. Sioui, HyRadix Inc.

U.S. 7,192,460 (20070320), Reformate cooling system and method for use in a fuel processing subsystem, Jeroen Valensa, Modine Manufacturing Co.

U.S. 7,192,539 (20070320), Cobalt oxide particles and process for producing the same, cathode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell and process, Hideaki Maeda, Shoichi Fujino, Hiroyasu Watanabe, Norimiki Sugiyama, and Hideaki Sadamura, Toda Kogyo Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,192,564 (20070320), Method for recycling spent lithium metal polymer rechargeable batteries and related materials, Francois Cardarelli and Jonathan Dube, Avestor Limited Partnership (CA).

U.S. 7,192,665 (20070320), Regulator for fuel cell, Yoji Nakajima, Kazuki Ishikawa, Takashi Yoshida, Katsumi Sahoda, and Kouji Miyano, Keihin Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,192,666 (20070320), Apparatus and method for heating fuel cells, John C. Calhoon, Microsoft Corp.

U.S. 7,192,667 (20070320), Device and method for controlling fuel cell system, Jefferson Y. S. Yang, Te-Chou Yang, and Yao-Sheng Hsu, Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd. (TW).

U.S. 7,192,668 (20070320), Fuel cell stack and method of operating a fuel cell system with such a fuel cell stack, Tomas Dehne, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 7,192,669 (20070320), System and method of fuel cell power generation, Akinari Nakamura, Masataka Ozeki, Shinji Miyauchi, and Tomonori Asou, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,192,670 (20070320), Fuel cell and membrane electrode assembly, Hideo Daimon and Yukiko Yamamoto, Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,192,671 (20070320), Battery having nonconductive core, Tatsuya Hashimoto, Kenji Kimura, Seiichi Uemoto, Hironori Yukisada, Masatomo Nagatani, and Takabumi Fujii, Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,192,672 (20070320), Process for producing positive electrode active material for lithium secondary battery, Kazushige Horichi, Manabu Suhara, Naoshi Saito, and Megumi Uchida, Seimi Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,192,673 (20070320), Electrode for rechargeable lithium battery and rechargeable lithium battery, Hiroaki Ikeda, Masahisa Fujimoto, Shin Fujitani, Masaki Shima, Hiromasa Yagi, Hisaki Tarui, Hiroshi Kurokawa, Kenji Asaoka, Shigeki Matsuta, Yoichi Domoto, Ryuji Ohshita, Yoshio Kato, Hiroshi Nakajima, and Yasuyuki Kusumoto, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,192,674 (20070320), Lithium primary battery, Seiji Yoshimura, Takashi Okamoto, and Maruo Kamino, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,192,675 (20070320), Lithium polymer secondary battery, Tsutomu Sada, Kazunari Takeda, Yumiko Takashima, Naoto Nishimura, Takehito Mitate, Kazuo Yamada, Motoaki Nishijima, and Naoto Torata, Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,193,120 (20070320), Colloid-catalyzed gas transfer in supercritical phases, Heiko G. Niessen, Klaus Woelk, Andreas Eichhorn, and Joachim Bargon, BASF Aktiengesellschaft (DE).

U.S. 7,193,389 (20070320), Electronic apparatus, Hakudai Kondo, Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,193,391 (20070320), Method for cell balancing for lithium battery systems, Stephen W. Moore, Enerdel, Inc.

U.S. 7,193,392 (20070320), System and method for determining and balancing state of charge among series connected electrical energy storage units, Darrell J. King, Per Onnerud, Jay J. Shi, Allan Chertok, J. Thomas Fowler, and Gerald R. Larocque, Tiax LLC.

U.S. 7,193,393 (20070320), Approach for charging multiple batteries, James C. Payne.

U.S. 7,193,394 (20070320), Method of controlling charge and discharge of secondary battery for automatic guided vehicle, Toshifumi Ueda, Kazuhiro Ohkawa, Nobuyasu Morishita, and Noriyuki Fujioka, Panasonic EV Energy Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,193,421 (20070320), Method and device for determining the state of a vehicle battery, Wunibald Frey, Helmut Meyer, and Marc Knapp, Robert Bosch GmbH (DE).

U.S. 7,193,839 (20070320), Methods of storing and retrieving electric energy, James Scott Hacsi.

U.S. 7,194,367 (20070320), Method and system for verification, calibration and simulation of a fuel cell test station, Marek Baker, Greenlight Power Technologies, (CA).

U.S. 7,194,801 (20070327), Thin-film battery having ultra-thin electrolyte and associated method, Mark Lynn Jenson and Victor Henry Weiss, Cymbet Corp.

U.S. 7,194,884 (20070327), Process and apparatus for manufacturing lithium or lithium alloy thin sheets for electrochemical cells, Richard Laliberté and Jonathan Dubé, Avestor Limited Partnership (CA).

U.S. 7,195,035 (20070327), In-tank hydrogen distribution valve, Rainer Pechtold, GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.

U.S. 7,195,516 (20070327), Battery housing structure and portable electronic apparatus, Kazunari Mizuguchi, Konica Minolta Sensing, Inc. (JP).

U.S. 7,195,652 (20070327), Method for forming compact chemical reactors with reactor frames, Gerard Francis McLean, Duhane Lam, and Olen Vanderleeden, Angstrom Power (CA).

U.S. 7,195,657 (20070327), Hydrogen generation system and fuel cell system having the same, Kunihiro Ukai, Kiyoshi Taguchi, Hidenobu Wakita, Seiji Fujihara, and Akira Maenishi, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,195,663 (20070327), Hydrogen purification membranes, components and fuel processing systems containing the same, David J. Edlund, William A. Pledger, and R. Todd Studebaker, IdaTech, LLC.

U.S. 7,195,690 (20070327), Roll-good fuel cell fabrication processes, equipment, and articles produced from same, David Robert Mekala, Donald George Peterson, Dennis Earl Ferguson, and Duane Douglas Fansler, 3M Innovative Properties Co.

U.S. 7,195,742 (20070327), Preferential oxidation reactor and process, Ke Liu, Sean C. Emerson, and Richard James Bellows, UTC Fuel Cells, LLC.

U.S. 7,195,830 (20070327), Apparatus, mechanism and process for warming-up fuel cell, Tomoki Kobayashi, Takahiro Kuriiwa, and Yoshio Nuiya, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,195,831 (20070327), Fuel cell and method of controlling the same, Seiji Sano and Shigeaki Murata, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,195,832 (20070327), Fuel cells, Robert Glynn Lewin and Stephen Vernon Barnett, British Nuclear Fuels PLC (GB).

U.S. 7,195,833 (20070327), Solid oxide electrolyte with ion conductivity enhancement by dislocation, Yuji Saito, Friedrich B. Prinz, Yong-Il Park, and Ryan O’Hayre, The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University and Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,195,834 (20070327), Metallized conducting polymer-grafted carbon material and method for making, Bollepalli Srinivas, Columbian Chemicals Co.

U.S. 7,195,835 (20070327), Proton conducting membrane for fuel cells, Daniel G. Colombo, Michael Krumpelt, Deborah J. Myers, and John P. Kopasz, UChicago Argonne, LLC.

U.S. 7,195,836 (20070327), Polymeric separator plates, Daniel J. Lisi, Richard H. Blunk, John N. Owens, Youssef M. Mikhail, and Mahmoud H. Abd Elhamid, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 7,195,837 (20070327), Separator unit and fuel cell with separator unit, Masaharu Suzuki, Naoyuki Enjoji, Yuichiro Kosaka, and Narutoshi Sugita, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,195,838 (20070327), Membrane electrode assembly and fuel cell, Masaaki Nanaumi, Junichi Yano, Yoshihiro Nakanishi, and Tadashi Nishiyama, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,195,839 (20070327), Battery cell with improved pressure relief vent, Richard L. Bouffard, Peter M. Lewis, Huaxin Li, Paul R. Elsdon Jr., Richard J. Sosnovich Jr., Warren Emerson Sweet, Robert E. Ray Jr., and James X Wu, Eveready Battery Co.

U.S. 7,195,840 (20070327), Cell structure for electrochemical devices and method of making same, Thomas D. Kaun.

U.S. 7,195,841 (20070327), System and a method of solid storage and dissolution of a catholyte for use in electrochemical cell, Steven P. Tucker, Maria G. Medeiros, and Eric G. Dow, The United States of America.

U.S. 7,195,842 (20070327), Electrode for use in lithium battery and rechargeable lithium battery, Masahisa Fujimoto, Shin Fujitani, Masaki Shima, Hiromasa Yagi, Hisaki Tarui, Hiroshi Kurokawa, Shigeki Matsuta, Yoichi Domoto, Yoshio Kato, Hiroshi Nakajima, Hiroaki Ikeda, Kenji Asaoka, and Ryuji Ohshita, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,195,843 (20070327), Electrochemical element or cell and a cathode for same, Francisco Javier Alday Lesaga, Fernando Perez Ortiz, Igor Cantero Uribe-Echeberria, Hana Krysova, Dina Fattakhova, and Petr Krtil, Celaya, Emparanza y Galdos, SA (Cegasa) (ES).

U.S. 7,195,844 (20070327), Lithium secondary battery, Tadashi Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Iijima, Jun-ichi Satoh, and Satoshi Maruyama, TDK Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,196,151 (20070327), Functionalized main chain polymers, Thomas Häring (DE).

U.S. 7,196,221 (20070327), Ionic liquids and their use, Andrew P. Abbott, David L. Davies, Glen Capper, Raymond Rasheed, and Vasuki Tambyrajah, Scionix (GB).

U.S. 7,196,235 (20070327), Process for producing fluorinated vinyl ether, Nobuto Hoshi, Nobuyuki Uematsu, and Masanori Ikeda, Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,196,297 (20070327), Process and system for thermally uniform materials processing, Donald A. Seccombe Jr. and Gary Orbeck, BTU International, Inc.

U.S. 7,196,493 (20070327), Closed loop control of battery power limits based on voltage, Ryan McGee, Jonathan Butcher, John Czubay, Fazal Syed, and Ming Kuang, Ford Global Technologies, LLC.

U.S. 7,196,494 (20070327), Method and apparatus for charging batteries in a system of batteries, Robert Baumgartner, Xantrex International (BB).

U.S. 7,196,495 (20070327), Dual battery and monitor arrangement, James Temple Burcham, Concord Technologies, LP.

U.S. 7,196,496 (20070327), Battery control circuit and electronic device, Susumu Yamada and Tsunehiko Yatsu, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,196,523 (20070327), Battery charge/discharge monitoring circuit and method, Susumu Yamada, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,196,911 (20070327), DC power source unit with battery charging function, Nobuhiro Takano, Takao Aradachi, Hidekazu Harada, Kenrou Ishimaru, and Takeshi Takeda, Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,197,487 (20070327), Apparatus and method for estimating battery state of charge, Terry Hansen and Chiajiu Wang, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR).