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Official Gazette, Volume 1324 (November 2007)

U.S. 7,290,554 (20071106), Embedded microfluidic check-valve, Paul B. Koeneman and Terry M. Provo, Harris Corp.

U.S. 7,290,555 (20071106), Embedded microfluidic check-valve, Paul B. Koeneman and Terry M. Provo, Harris Corp.

U.S. 7,290,563 (20071106), Pressure regulator, Yasuaki Nakamura (JP).

U.S. 7,290,937 (20071106), Slide bearing for cooling water circulation pump in fuel cell, Hayashi Takumi and Fukuzawa Satoru, NTN Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,291,041 (20071106), Dual purpose mini-charger, Fu-I Yang, Samya Technology Co., Ltd. (TW).

U.S. 7,291,186 (20071106), Solid porous zinc electrodes and methods of making same, Xiaoge Gregory Zhang, Teck Cominco Metals Ltd. (CA).

U.S. 7,291,191 (20071106), Fuel cell cartridge filters and pressure relief, Ian W. Kaye, UltraCell Corp.

U.S. 7,291,255 (20071106), Method and apparatus for producing high-purity hydrogen, Hiroyuki Fujimura, Chi Matsumura, Takahiro Oshita, and Kanichi Ito, Ebara Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,291,410 (20071106), Orientation independent liquid fuel reservoir, Mark R. Kinkelaar, Kenneth P. Overk, Salvatore C. Panarello, Joseph W. Lovette, Roeland J. Tuinman, and Richard M. Good.

U.S. 7,291,411 (20071106), Fuel cell shutdown and startup purge using a stoichiometric staged combustor, William Henry Pettit and Steven G. Goebel, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 7,291,412 (20071106), Control apparatus and control method of fuel cell system, Isamu Kazama and Kazuma Okura, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,291,413 (20071106), Fuel cell end plate, Jeffrey P. Allen and Peter W. Allen, GenCell Corp.

U.S. 7,291,414 (20071106), Reactant feed for nested stamped plates for a compact fuel cell, Steven G. Goebel and Jeffrey A. Rock, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 7,291,415 (20071106), Solid oxide fuel cell with external manifolds, Scott Sherman and Zheng Tang, Versa Power Systems, Ltd. (CA).

U.S. 7,291,416 (20071106), Fuel cell system having inlet fuel to more than one and/or recycle to less than all of the fuel fields, Paul R. Margiott, Michael L. Perry, Carl A. Reiser, and Michael L. Vukovinsky, UTC Power Corp.

U.S. 7,291,417 (20071106), Compositional and structural gradients for fuel cell electrode materials, Gregory S Herman, David Champion, Peter Mardilovich, and James O’Neil, Hewlett-Packard Development Co., LP.

U.S. 7,291,418 (20071106), Methods and systems for elevating a temperature within a fuel cell, David Champion, Gregory S. Herman, Peter Mardilovich, and Joseph W. Tsang, Hewlett Packard Development Co., LP.

U.S. 7,291,419 (20071106), Durable membrane electrode assembly catalyst coated diffusion media with no lamination to membrane, Susan G. Yan, Bhaskar Sompalli, and John C. Doyle, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 7,291,420 (20071106), Heat exchanger structure for a plurality of electrochemical storage cells, Otmar Bitsche and Johann German, DaimlerChrysler AG (DE).

U.S. 7,291,421 (20071106), Battery pack, Tadao Kimura, Shinji Hamada, Yoshiaki Ogata, Tomokazu Yamauchi, and Toshiyuki Sekimori, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP) and Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,291,422 (20071106), Battery and related method, Etsuo Oogami, Ryuichi Amagai, Tadahiko Morigaki, and Tsuyoshi Enokida, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,291,423 (20071106), Prismatic sealed battery, Hiromi Kajiya, Shoji Karasawa, Masato Onishi, Takashi Asahina, Shinji Hamada, and Toyohiko Eto, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP) and Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,291,424 (20071106), Positive electrode for lithium-sulfur battery and lithium-sulfur battery fabricated using same, Seok Kim, YongJu Jung, Ji-Seong Han, and Jan-Dee Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,291,696 (20071106), Composition and associated method, Hieu Minh Duong and Daniel Steiger, General Electric Co.

U.S. 7,292,431 (20071106), Electrochemical capacitor and method of use, Alexander Mikhailovich Timonov, Sergey Anatolijevich Logvinov, Dmitriy Ivanovich Pivunov, Svetlana Viktorovna Vasiljeva, Nik Shkolnik, and Sam Kogan, Gen 3 Partners, Inc.

U.S. 7,293,568 (20071113), Aqueous solutions of silicon metal and methods of making and using same, Ben Elledge, Richard Okun, Robert Kulperger, and Glen Davies, Silicon Chemistry, Inc.

U.S. 7,294,157 (20071113), Carbon monoxide converter, Masako Takayama and Hikaru Okada, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,294,209 (20071113), Apparatus and method for depositing material onto a substrate using a roll-to-roll mask, Stuart Shakespeare, Cymbet Corp.

U.S. 7,294,411 (20071113), Brazing product and method of its manufacture, Jacques Hubert Olga Joseph Wijenberg, Adrianus Jacobus Witterbrood, and Joop Nicolaas Mooij, Aleris Aluminum Koblenz GmbH (DE).

U.S. 7,294,417 (20071113), Metal oxide nanostructures with hierarchical morphology, Zhifeng Ren, Jing Yu Lao, and Debasish Banerjee, The Trustees of Boston College.

U.S. 7,294,420 (20071113), Production of hydrogen, Michael Graham Hodges, BP PLC (GB).

U.S. 7,294,421 (20071113), Solid oxide auxiliary power unit reformate control, John G. Noetzel and Malcolm James Grieve, Delphi Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 7,294,422 (20071113), Cooling method for fuel cell, Mitsuharu Imaseki, Takeshi Ushio, and Yoshirou Shimoyama, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,294,423 (20071113), Polymer electrolyte fuel cell having improved current collector plates and method of forming the same, Nobuhiro Hase, Kazuhito Hatoh, Hiroki Kusakabe, Hideo Ohara, Susumu Kobayashi, Soichi Shibata, and Shinsuke Takeguchi, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,294,424 (20071113), Solid-oxide fuel cell assembly having simplified arrangement of current collectors, Karl J. Haltiner Jr., Delphi Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 7,294,425 (20071113), Channel-less proton exchange membrane fuel cell, Rex A. Hodge, Lyn M. Cowgill, Tamer S. Douara, Melissa F. Miller, and Wyatt B. Orsbon, SemGreen, LP.

U.S. 7,294,426 (20071113), Sealing structure for sealing separator plates of fuel cell modules, Jefferson Y. S. Yang, Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd. (TW).

U.S. 7,294,427 (20071113), Manifold gasket accommodating differential movement of fuel cell stack, Dana A. Kelley and Mohammad Farooque, FuelCell Energy, Inc. and United States of America.

U.S. 7,294,428 (20071113), Method for reusing current collectors/distributors of solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell stacks, Luca Merlo, Gabriele Mazzucchelli, Gian Piero Fleba, Enrico Ramunni, Giampaolo Brignoli, Paolo Monzani, and Massimo Brambilla, Nuvera Fuel Cells Europe Srl (IT).

U.S. 7,294,429 (20071113), Alkaline cell with flat housing, David Anglin, Mark Ashbolt, Derek Bobowick, Robert S. Ferrin, Anthony Malgioglio, Brien Merrill, Alexander Shelekhin, Steven J. Specht, Matthew Sylvestre, Philip Trainer, and Robert A. Yoppolo, The Gillette Co.

U.S. 7,294,430 (20071113), Battery having a wound electrode element, Paul J. Wyser, Wyon AG (CH).

U.S. 7,294,431 (20071113), Battery employing thermally conductive polymer case, Rajeev Puttaiah, John Smaga, Ronald Himmler, Lin R. Higley, and Marshall D. Muller, Ovonic Battery Co., Inc.

U.S. 7,294,432 (20071113), Battery having improved headspace insulator, William G. Howard, David P. Haas, and Jeffrey S. Lund, Medtronic, Inc.

U.S. 7,294,433 (20071113), Closed alkaline storage battery, Shinji Murashige, Tetsuo Nanno, Yoichi Izumi, and Munehisa Ikoma, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,294,434 (20071113), Nickel hydroxide electrode material with improved microstructure and method for making the same, Cristian Fierro, Michael A. Fetcenko, Kwo Young, Stanford R. Ovshinsky, Beth Sommers, and Craig Harrison, Ovonic Battery Co., Inc.

U.S. 7,294,435 (20071113), Positive electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, positive electrode mixture for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Yoshifumi Miyamoto and Kenichi Kobayashi, Nichia Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,294,436 (20071113), Nonaqueous electrolytic solution and lithium secondary batteries, Koji Abe and Yasuo Matsumori, Ube Industries, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,294,603 (20071113), Process for production of conductive catalyst particles, process for production of catalyst electrode capable of gas diffusion, apparatus for production of conductive catalyst particles, and vibrating apparatus, Kenji Katori and Toshiaki Kanemitsu, Sony Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,294,685 (20071113), Sulfonated polyphosphazene derivative and method for producing the same, Hiroshi Akita, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,294,990 (20071113), Battery charging device and method thereof, Chia Hua Wang, Hipro Electronic Co., Ltd. (TW).

U.S. 7,295,014 (20071113), Method for determination of characteristic variable which relates to the state of charge of a storage battery, Ingo Koch and Eberhard Meissner, VB Autobatterie GmbH (DE).

U.S. 7,295,423 (20071113), Dry particle based adhesive electrode and methods of making same, Porter Mitchell, Xiaomei Xi, Linda Zhong, and Bin Zou, Maxwell Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 7,295,936 (20071113), Electronic battery tester with relative test output, Kevin I. Bertness and J. David Vonderhaar, Midtronics, Inc.

U.S. 7,297,183 (20071120), Hydrogen purification devices, components, and fuel processing systems containing the same, David J. Edlund, Chester B. Frost, and R. Todd Studebaker, IdaTech, LLC.

U.S. 7,297,227 (20071120), Method of making sheet electrode for electric, Kouki Ozaki, Masanori Tsutsui, Manabu Iwaida, Shigeki Oyama, and Kenichi Murakami, Daido Metal Co. Ltd. (JP) and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,297,271 (20071120), Titanium powder sintered compact, Takashi Onishi, Tadashi Ogasawara, Munetoshi Watanabe, and Masamichi Kato, Sumitomo Titanium Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,297,289 (20071120), Ionic liquids, electrolyte salts for storage device, electrolytic solution for storage device, electric double layer capacitor, and secondary battery, Takaya Sato, Gen Masuda, Ryutaro Nozu, and Tatsuya Maruo, Nisshinbo Industries, Inc. (JP).

U.S. 7,297,298 (20071120), Nano-particles and process for producing nano-particles, Yuki Matsunami and Shintaro Washizu, Fujifilm Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,297,300 (20071120), Method of making polarizable electrode for electric double layer capacitor, Kouki Ozaki, Masanori Tsutsui, Manabu Iwaida, Shigeki Oyama, and Kenichi Murakami, Daido Metal Co. Ltd (JP) and Honda Motors Co. Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,297,320 (20071120), Spherical carbons and method for preparing the same, Ou-Jung Kwon, Seung-Mo Oh, Ki-Young Lee, Myung-Hwan Kim, and Kyu-Tae Lee, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,297,324 (20071120), Microchannel reactors with temperature control, Ward E. TeGrotenhuis, David L. King, Greg A. Whyatt, Christopher M. Fischer, Robert S. Wegeng, and Kriston P. Brooks, Battelle Memorial Institute.

U.S. 7,297,424 (20071120), Solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell stack, Narutoshi Sugita, Noriaki Osao, and Takeshi Ushio, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,297,425 (20071120), Interconnect device, fuel cell and fuel cell stack, Christian Olsen, Harald Usterud, and Jens Ulrik Nielsen, Topsoe Fuel Cell A/S (DK).

U.S. 7,297,426 (20071120), Direct methanol fuel cell system, fuel cartridge, and memory for fuel cartridge, Hirotaka Sakai, Nobuo Shibuya, Hiroyuki Hasebe, Norihiro Tomimatsu, Hiroyasu Sumino, Hirohisa Miyamoto, and Masato Akita, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP).

U.S. 7,297,427 (20071120), Fuel cell system and process for controlling the same, Kouji Kurosaki and Jiyunji Uehara, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,297,428 (20071120), Registration arrangement for fuel cell assemblies, Kim B. Saulsbury, Mary R. Boone, Dennis P. O’Brien, Dennis E. Ferguson, and Paul M. Boucher, 3M Innovative Properties Co.

U.S. 7,297,429 (20071120), Ionomer for use in fuel cells and method of making same, Carlos Alberto Cavalca and Karine Gulati, Gore Enterprise Holdings, Inc.

U.S. 7,297,430 (20071120), Anode diffusion layer for a direct oxidation fuel cell, Gerhard Beckmann and Xiaoming Ren, MTI MicroFuel Cells, Inc.

U.S. 7,297,432 (20071120), Fuel cell and fuel cell stack, Narutoshi Sugita, Yoshihiro Nakanishi, and Hideaki Kikuchi, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,297,433 (20071120), Fuel cell, Atsushi Kamachi, Shunsuke Itami, and Hitoshi Okanobori, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,297,434 (20071120), Fuel cell, Akira Tanaka, Hitachi, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,297,435 (20071120), Solid oxide fuel cell, Stanford R. Ovshinsky, Srinvasan Venkatesan, and Dennis A. Corrigan, Ovonic Fuel Cell Co., LLC.

U.S. 7,297,436 (20071120), Fuel cell, Yuuichi Hori, Kyocera Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,297,437 (20071120), Battery with gelled electrolyte, Robert Clarke, Brian Dougherty, Stephen Harrison, J. Peter Millington, and Samaresh Mohanta, Plurion Ltd. (GB).

U.S. 7,297,438 (20071120), Cooling device for battery pack, Shinya Kimoto, Panasonic EV Energy Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,297,439 (20071120), Battery, Masato Yamazaki and Takaaki Watanabe, Kyocera Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,297,440 (20071120), Battery pack and process for the production thereof, Atsushi Watanabe and Hirotaka Shinya, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,297,441 (20071120), Nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery, Kazuhito Hatta, Tsuyonobu Hatazawa, and Tomitaro Hara, Sony Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,297,442 (20071120), Nonaqueous electrolytic solution and lithium secondary battery employing the same, Koji Abe, Takaaki Kuwata, Takashi Hattori, and Yasuo Matsumori, Ube Industries, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,297,443 (20071120), Lithium-limited anode subassembly, Paul B. Aamodt, Karl E. Hokanson, Sonja K. Somdahl, Craig L. Schmidt, and Joseph J. Viavattine, Medtronic, Inc.

U.S. 7,297,444 (20071120), Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Youko Sano, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,297,445 (20071120), Porous carbon electrode substrate and its production method and carbon fiber paper, Makoto Nakamura, Yoshihiko Hosako, Hidehiko Ohashi, Mitsuo Hamada, and Kazushige Mihara, Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,297,446 (20071120), Negative electrode for rechargeable lithium battery and method for fabrication thereof, Atsushi Fukui, Mariko Torimae, Yasuyuki Kusumoto, and Hisaki Tarui, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,297,447 (20071120), Non-aqueous electrolyte battery, Tetsuo Kawai, Atsushi Yamano, Noriyuki Yabushita, Tadashi Sakata, and Hideki Nishihama, Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,298,113 (20071120), Battery pack, Hironobu Orikasa, Sony Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,298,114 (20071120), Nickel hydrogen/nickel cadmium battery charger with the function of emergency power supply, Fu-I Yang (TW).

U.S. 7,300,305 (20071127), Connecting element for connecting cells to form accumulators, Daniel Scotton and Pascal Collaud, SAT Akkumulatoren Technik AG (CH).

U.S. 7,300,475 (20071127), Manufacturing method for electrode apparatus of battery, David Shau-Chew Wang, Chih-Ming Yu, and Yi-Nuo Chen, Polytronics Technology Corp. (TW).

U.S. 7,300,559 (20071127), Filtered cathodic arc deposition method and apparatus, Vladimir I. Gorokhovsky, G & H Technologies LLC.

U.S. 7,300,561 (20071127), Oxide ion conductive ceramic membrane stacked microstructures; use for separating oxygen from air, Christophe Chaput, Thierry Terracol, Gisèle Bach, Guylaine Gouriou, and Pascal Del Gallo, L’Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme a Directoire et Conseil de Surveillance Pour l’Etude et l’Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude (FR).

U.S. 7,300,643 (20071127), Method for producing hydrogen and apparatus for supplying hydrogen, Kiyoshi Otsuka, Sakae Takenaka, Kiyozumi Nakamura, and Kazuyuki Iizuka, Uchiya Thermostat Co., Ltd. (JP) and Kiyoshi Otsuka (JP).

U.S. 7,300,716 (20071127), Fuel cell system with a control unit, Rainer Saliger and Markus Backes, Robert Bosch GmbH (DE).

U.S. 7,300,717 (20071127), Control device for fuel cell system and related method, Nobusuke Toukura, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,300,718 (20071127), Electrolyte-electrode joined assembly and method for producing the same, Takayuki Yamada, Naoki Kamide, and Kazuyuki Yamada, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,300,719 (20071127), Porous diffusion media and bipolar plate assembly with anion exchange resin and devices incorporating same, Mahmoud H. Abd Elhamid, Youssef M. Mikhail, and Richard H. Blunk, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 7,300,720 (20071127), Hydrogen absorbing alloy and secondary battery, Isao Sakai, Tatsuoki Kohno, Shirou Takeno, Takamichi Inaba, Hideki Yoshida, Masaaki Yamamoto, Hirotaka Hayashida, Shusuke Inada, Hiroshi Kitayama, Motoya Kanda, Fumiyuki Kawashima, and Takao Sawa, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP).

U.S. 7,300,721 (20071127), Alkaline secondary electrochemical generators with a zinc anode, Bernard Bugnet, Denis Doniat, and Robert Rouget, SCPS Societe de Conseil et de Prospective Scientifique SA (FR).

U.S. 7,300,722 (20071127), Lithium battery containing bismuth metal oxide, Paul A. Christian, Cahit Eylem, Kirakodu S. Nanjundaswamy, Fan Zhang, and Xiandong Wang, The Gillette Co.

U.S. 7,300,723 (20071127), Heat resistant lithium cell, Satoru Fukuoka, Seiji Morita, Nobuhiro Nishiguchi, Satoru Naruse, Masayuki Muraki, and Masahiro Imanishi, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,300,905 (20071127), Methods for their manufacture of adsorbent, Bowie G. Keefer, Alain A. Carel, Brian G. Sellars, Ian S. D. Shaw, Belinda C. Larisch, David G. Dornan, Frederick K. Lee, Andrea C. Gibbs, Bernard H. Hetzler, James A. Sawada, Aaron M. Pelman, and Carl F. Hunter, QuestAir Technologies Inc (CA).

U.S. 7,300,958 (20071127), Ultra-dispersed nanocarbon and method for preparing the same, Fumiaki Kataoka, Eiji Osawa, Takahiro Fujino, Makoto Takahashi, Osamu Idohara, Akira Terajima, Yoshiaki Inoue, Seiji Yokota, and Kazuhiro Kawasaki, Futaba Corp. (JP), Nanocarbon Research Institute Ltd. (JP), and Neturen Co, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,300,984 (20071127), Process for preparing graft copolymers and membranes formed therefrom, Sean M. MacKinnon, Ballard Power Systems Inc. (CA).

U.S. 7,300,991 (20071127), Cationic conductor, its intermediate, and lithium secondary battery using the conductor, Shin Nishimura, Akira Satou, Takefumi Okumura, Makoto Morishima, Hitoshi Yamamoto, and Norikazu Ueyama, Hitachi, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,301,002 (20071127), Sulfonated polyphenylene polymers, Christopher J. Cornelius, Cy H. Fujimoto, and Michael A. Hickner, Sandia Corp.

U.S. 7,301,059 (20071127), Fluorosulfates of hexafluoroisobutylene and its higher homologs and their derivatives, Victor Filippovich Cherstkov, Nina Ivanova Delyagina, Viacheslav A. Petrov, Weiming Qiu, and Paul R. Resnick, E I du Pont de Nemours and Co.

U.S. 7,301,303 (20071127), Portable battery jump start in a soft-sided carrying case, Richard M. Hulden, International Specialty Services, Inc.

U.S. 7,301,304 (20071127), Energy storage system state of charge diagnostic, Scott T. Weisgerber and William R. Cawthorne, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 7,301,305 (20071127), System and method for determining available capacity of a rechargeable battery, Phat H. Tran, Research In Motion Ltd. (CA).

U.S. 7,301,306 (20071127), Charging and discharging control circuit and charging type power supply device, Wei Zhang, Seiko Instruments Inc. (JP).

U.S. 7,301,307 (20071127), Method and apparatus to charge a battery using determination of battery load current, Stig Rafn Hansen, Emil Froding, and Frank Jorgensen, Nokia Corp. (FI).

U.S. 7,301,308 (20071127), Fast charger for high capacity batteries, John F. Aker and James R. Wade, Aker Wade Power Technologies, LLC.

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