u.s. battery and fuel cell patents

Official Gazette, Volume 1325 (December 2007)

U.S. 7,302,969 (20071204), Valve device for use with fuel cells, Tatsuji Hasegawa, Masakazu Murai, Junichi Sugamori, Yoshio Kusano, and Toshikatsu Katagiri, Keihin Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,303,424 (20071204), Battery cover assembly for portable electronic device, Ying-Liang Tu and Chia-Hua Chen, ShenZhen FuTaiHong Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (CN) and Sutech Trading Ltd. (VG).

U.S. 7,303,448 (20071204), Battery terminal connector with reversible clamp lever, George S. Sproesser, East Penn Manufacturing Co., Inc.

U.S. 7,303,593 (20071204), Method to blend separator powders, Ronald A. Guidotti, Arthur H. Andazola, and Frederick W. Reinhardt, Sandia Corp.

U.S. 7,303,594 (20071204), Battery electrode and method of making the same, George Cintra and Kenneth Taylor, The Gillette Co.

U.S. 7,303,598 (20071204), Liquid fuel preprocessor, Mehdi Namazian and John T. Kelly, Altex Technologies.

U.S. 7,303,723 (20071204), Method of forming nanostructures on ceramics, Sheikh A. Akbar, Sehoon Yoo, and Kenneth H. Sandhage, The Ohio State University Research Foundation.

U.S. 7,303,736 (20071204), Nanostructured materials for hydrogen storage, Andrew J. Williamson and Fernando A. Reboredo, The Regents of the University of California.

U.S. 7,303,811 (20071204), Porous insulating film and its laminates, Shigeru Yao, Yukihiko Asano, Shyusei Ohya, Kenji Fukunaga, Masayuki Kinouchi, and Kenji Kawabata, Ube Industries (JP).

U.S. 7,303,830 (20071204), Fuel cell, Mark J. Andrews, John E. Lockley, and Brian Wilson, Victrex Manufacturing Ltd. (GB).

U.S. 7,303,831 (20071204), Antifreeze cooling subsystem, Jean St-Pierre, Stephen A. Campbell, Mark K. Watson, and Michael P. Sexsmith, Ballard Powers Systems Inc. (CA).

U.S. 7,303,832 (20071204), Electrochemical fuel cell comprised of a series of conductive compression gaskets and method of manufacture, Wyatt B. Orsbon, Rex A. Hodge, and Rolf R. Becker, SemGreen, LP.

U.S. 7,303,833 (20071204), Electrolyte sheet with a corrugation pattern, Jeffrey E. Cortright and Thomas D. Ketcham, Corning Inc.

U.S. 7,303,834 (20071204), Catalytic coatings and fuel cell electrodes and membrane electrode assemblies made therefrom, Geoffrey Dearnaley and James H. Arps, Gore Enterprise Holdings, Inc.

U.S. 7,303,835 (20071204), Diffusion media, fuel cells, and fuel cell powered systems, Mark F. Mathias, Joerg Roth, Bhaskar Sompalli, Michael Schoeneweiss, and David Wood, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 7,303,836 (20071204), Secondary battery including improved cap assembly and method of manufacturing the cap assembly, Bong-Ki Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,303,837 (20071204), Positive electrode for lithium-sulfur battery and lithium-sulfur battery and article of manufacture including same, YongJu Jung, Seok Kim, and YunSuk Choi, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,303,838 (20071204), Negative electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Tomokazu Morita and Norio Takami, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP).

U.S. 7,303,839 (20071204), Negative electrode for lithium sulfur battery, method of preparing same and lithium sulfur battery comprising same, Jong-Ki Lee, Jea-Woan Lee, Chung-Kun Cho, Sang-Mock Lee, and Min-Seuk Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,303,840 (20071204), Manganese oxide composite electrodes for lithium batteries, Michael M. Thackeray, Christopher S. Johnson, and Naichao Li, UChicago Argonne, LLC.

U.S. 7,303,974 (20071204), Method for producing electrochemical capacitor electrode, Kiyonori Hinoki, Tsuyoshi Ichiki, Kazutoshi Emoto, Takehiko Sasaki, Kenichi Murakami, Shigeki Oyama, and Manabu Iwaida, TDK Corp. and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,303,975 (20071204), Method for producing electrochemical capacitor electrode, Kiyonori Hinoki, Tsuyoshi Ichiki, Kazutoshi Emoto, Takehiko Sasaki, Kenichi Murakami, Shigeki Oyama, and Manabu Iwaida, TDK Corp. and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,304,101 (20071204), Method of purifying a dispersion of ionic fluoropolymer, Klaus Hintzer, Kai H. Lochhaas, Tanja Zeif, Steven J. Hamrock, and Harold T. Freemyer, 3M Innovative Properties Co.

U.S. 7,304,397 (20071204), Fuel cell system, Wolfgang Zinser and Markus Aberle, NuCellSys GmbH (DE).

U.S. 7,304,453 (20071204), Methods and systems for assembling batteries, Stephen S. Eaves, Modular Energy Devices, Inc.

U.S. 7,304,832 (20071204), Ceramic container and battery and electric double layer capacitor using the same, Yoshihiro Ushio, Kiyotaka Yokoi, Manabu Miyaishi, and Masakazu Yasui, Kyocera Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,305,865 (20071211), Hydrocarbon reformer performance sensing system, James H. Kralick, Norm Peschke, and Da Yu Wang, Delphi Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 7,306,641 (20071211), Integral fuel cartridge and filter, Alan R. Arthur and John H. Dion, Hewlett-Packard Development Co., LP.

U.S. 7,306,658 (20071211), High purity air and gas fractionation system, Donald H. White, Donaldson Co., Inc.

U.S. 7,306,705 (20071211), Method for dehydrating composition comprising lithium bis(pentafluoroethanesulfonyl)imide, Daisuke Karube, Shintaro Ogata, Keiko Washino, and Tatsuya Otsuka, Daikin Industries, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,306,779 (20071211), Lithium-cobalt composite oxide, process for its production, positive electrode for lithium secondary cell employing it, and lithium secondary cell, Manabu Suhara, Kazuo Sunahara, Naoshi Saitoh, and Tsutomu Katoh, Seimi Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,306,780 (20071211), Method of generating hydrogen gas from sodium borohydride, Stanley H. Kravitz, Andrew M. Hecht, Alan P. Sylwester, and Nelson S. Bell, Sandia Corp.

U.S. 7,306,781 (20071211), Hydrogen generator, William B. Retallick and William A. Whittenberger, Catacel Corp.

U.S. 7,306,822 (20071211), Products comprising nano-precision engineered electronic components, Tapesh Yadav and Hongxing Hu, NanoProducts Corp.

U.S. 7,306,824 (20071211), Method for encapsulating nanoparticles in a zeolite matrix, Eric N. Coker, Sandia Corp.

U.S. 7,306,862 (20071211), Removable storage method for hydrogen and hydrogen reservoir, Dominik Kramer, Jörg Weismüller, and Herbert Gleiter, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH (DE).

U.S. 7,306,863 (20071211), Replaceable fuel cell apparatus having information storage device, Michael L. Bullock and Winthrop D. Childers, Hewlett-Packard Development Co., LP.

U.S. 7,306,864 (20071211), One-shot fabrication of membrane-based electrochemical cell stacks, Paul Osenar, Paul Sabin, Mohammad Enayetullah, and Richard M. Formato, Protonex Technology Corp.

U.S. 7,306,865 (20071211), Electrode arrangement for a fuel cell having sectored headplates, Stephan Rüdiger Blum, 2S-Sophisticated Systems Ltd. (GB).

U.S. 7,306,866 (20071211), Multi-element thin-film fuel cell, Charles C. Haluzak, Hewlett-Packard Development Co., LP.

U.S. 7,306,867 (20071211), Proton conductive solid polymer electrolyte, Teruaki Komiya, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,306,868 (20071211), Integrated fuel cell stack and catalytic combustor apparatus, assembly, and method of use, Alan R. Arthur, Hewlett-Packard Development Co., LP.

U.S. 7,306,869 (20071211), Electrostatically actuated shutter and array for use in a direct oxidation fuel cell, David H. Leach and Charles M. Carlstrom Jr., MTI MicroFuel Cells Inc.

U.S. 7,306,870 (20071211), Fuel cell, Andrew G. Gilicinski and Bryan L Hesse, The Gillette Co.

U.S. 7,306,872 (20071211), Modular fuel cell cassette for forming a solid-oxide fuel cell stack, Karl J. Haltiner Jr., Subhasish Mukerjee, Lawrence A. Chick, Kerry D. Meinhardt, Dean M. Paxton, Vincent L. Sprenkle, K. Scott Weil, John E. Deibler, Paul E. George II, and Kurtis P. Recknagle, Delphi Technologies, Inc. and Battelle Memorial Institute.

U.S. 7,306,873 (20071211), Method and apparatus for changing the direction of fluid flow in fuel cell flow fields, Yoshinori Wariishi, Naoyuki Enjoji, Masaharu Suzuki, and Yuichiro Kosaka, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,306,874 (20071211), PEM fuel cell stack with coated flow distribution network, Thomas A. Trabold, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 7,306,875 (20071211), Bipolar plate for a fuel cell, Patrick Garceau, SNECMA (FR).

U.S. 7,306,876 (20071211), Method for producing membrane-electrode structure and polymer electrolyte fuel cell, Masaki Tani, Hiroshi Shinkai, Katsuhiko Kohyama, Ichiro Tanaka, Yuichiro Hama, and Junichi Yano, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,306,877 (20071211), Battery terminal, Gaku Fujii and Kunihiko Akamatsu, Yazaki Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,306,878 (20071211), Battery device and electronic apparatus, Toshio Takeshita, Kei Tashiro, Takashi Kondou, and Yoshihito Tamesue, Sony Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,306,879 (20071211), Lithium ion secondary cell, Yasushi Inda, Kazuo Ohara, Tetsuo Uchiyama, and Morinobu Endo, Kabushiki Kaisha Ohara (JP).

U.S. 7,306,880 (20071211), Electrolyte for a lithium ion battery and a lithium ion battery comprising the same, Hyeong-Gon Noh, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,307,113 (20071211), Fluorosulfonic acid organic polymers, Zhenyu Yang, E I du Pont de Nemours and Co.

U.S. 7,307,127 (20071211), Highly sulfonated block copolymer hydrogels and uses thereof, Eugene Napadensky, Yossef A. Elabd, Dawn M Crawford, and James M. Sloan, United States of America.

U.S. 7,307,402 (20071211), Method of charging alkali metal polymer batteries, Michel Parent, Philippe Gagnon, and Jean-Pierre Vaillancourt, Avestor Ltd. Partnership (CA).

U.S. 7,307,830 (20071211), Capacitor with battery form factor housing, Rolland Gallay, Daniel Schlunke, and Richard Smith, Maxwell Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 7,309,022 (20071218), Substance shutoff device and fuel cell, Toru Nakakubo, Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,309,068 (20071218), Rubber gasket for separator of fuel cell, Toru Segawa, Atsushi Omura, Katsuya Kusuno, Tetsuo Ohinata, Chisato Kato, Toshiyuki Suzuki, Naohiro Takeshita, and Yasuyuki Asai, Nichias Corp. (JP) and Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,309,253 (20071218), Battery cover fixing mechanism and battery cover and housing assembly, Peng-Jing Ge, Xing-Huang Luo, Rui-Hao Chen, Ye Liu, Shui-Yuan Qin, and Hsiao-Hua Tu, Shenzhen Futaihong Precision Industrial Co., Ltd. (CN) and Sutech Trading Ltd. (VG)).

U.S. 7,309,277 (20071218), Method of manufacturing honeycomb structural body, Akifumi Nishio, Toshiharu Kondo, and Takashi Noro, NGK Insulators, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,309,380 (20071218), Gas storage system, Ulrich Müller, Michael Hesse, Reinhard Heb, Rainer Senk, Markus Hölzle, and Omar M. Yaghi, BASF Aktiengesellschaft (DE) and The Regents of the University of Michigan.

U.S. 7,309,478 (20071218), Production of tetrabasic lead sulfate from solid state reactions for the preparation of active plates to be used in lead-acid batteries, Ricardo Flores-Lira and Sanjuana Garza-de La Garza, GES Technologies IP GmbH (CH).

U.S. 7,309,523 (20071218), Hybrid material, use of said hybrid material and method for making same, Jacques Roziere, Deborah Jones, Lydie Tchicaya-Boukary, and Bernd Bauer, FuMA-Tech Gesellschaft für funktionelle Membranen und Anlagentechnologie mbH (DE).

U.S. 7,309,535 (20071218), Air breathing fuel cell having bi-cell unit cells, Stanford R. Ovshinsky, Zdravjo Menjak, Srinivasan Venkatesan, Rajeev Puttaiah, and Hong Wang, Ovonic Fuel Cell Co., LLC.

U.S. 7,309,537 (20071218), Fuel cell system with fluid stream recirculation, Janusz Blaszczyk, Rainer Schmidt, Wolfram Fleck, and Paul L Paterson, Ballard Power Systems Inc. (CA).

U.S. 7,309,538 (20071218), Fuel cell stack, Koichi Shiraishi, Masao Ando, and Munehisa Horiguchi, Kabushikikaisha Equos Research (JP).

U.S. 7,309,539 (20071218), Fuel cell stack, Hideo Kato, Katsumi Hayashi, Yosuke Fujii, Masahiko Sato, and Hideo Okamoto, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,309,540 (20071218), Electrical power source designs and components, Conghua Wang, Sarnoff Corp.

U.S. 7,309,541 (20071218), Fuel cell, Shunsuke Mizutani, Shuji Hitomi, Hideo Yasuda, and Masanori Yamachi, GS Yuasa Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,309,542 (20071218), Membrane electrode assembly and fuel cell, Toshiya Wakahoi, Narutoshi Sugita, Shuhei Goto, Takeo Abe, and Hiroyuki Shirokawa, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,309,543 (20071218), Layered lithium-nickel-based compound oxide powder and its production process, Kenji Shizuka, Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,309,544 (20071218), Cell electrode and electrochemical cell therewith, Tomoki Nobuta, Toshihiko Nishiyama, Hiroyuki Kamisuki, Shinako Kaneko, Masato Kurosaki, Yuji Nakagawa, and Masaya Mitani, NEC Tokin Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,309,545 (20071218), Anode material and battery using the same, Hiroaki Tanizaki and Atsuo Omaru, Sony Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,309,546 (20071218), Positive active material for rechargeable lithium battery, Ho-Jin Kweon, Jun-Won Suh, Kyung-Ho Kim, and Hee-Young Sun, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,309,547 (20071218), Hydrogen absorbing alloy, electrode thereof and nickel-metal hydride battery, Tetsuyuki Murata, Shigekazu Yasuoka, and Jun Ishida, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,309,548 (20071218), Lithium secondary battery, Taeko Ota, Ryuji Ohshita, and Maruo Kamino, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,310,219 (20071218), Electrochemical capacitor, Atsuko Kosuda and Satoshi Maruyama, TDK Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,310,225 (20071218), Heat radiation structure for secondary battery module, and switching board and secondary battery module having the same, Jin Woong Ha, Jeeho Kim, and Hanho Lee, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,311,116 (20071225), Gas regulation system and process for operating the gas regulation system, Mark Andrew Lillis, Proton Energy Systems, Inc.

U.S. 7,311,760 (20071225), Temperature-humidity exchanger, Mitsuie Matsumura, Yoshihide Gonjo, and Hideo Ichimura, Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,311,765 (20071225), Energy and/or mass exchange apparatus having an integrated fluid separator, Ricardo Bazzarella, Hydrogenics Corp. (CA).

U.S. 7,311,808 (20071225), Device and method for increasing mass transport at liquid-solid diffusion boundary layer, Qunwei Wu, Craig L. Brodeur, John E. Pillion, and Jieh Hwa Shyu, Entegris, Inc.

U.S. 7,311,984 (20071225), Fuel cell system, Kenichiro Ueda and Koichiro Miyata, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,311,985 (20071225), Device and method for supplying hydrogen to a fuel cell, and the use thereof for electric vehicle traction, Fabien Boudjemaa, Luc Rouveyre, Sadok Garnit, and Rudolf Metkemeijer, Renault SAS (FR) and Association pour la Recherche et le Developpement des Methodes et Processus Industriels-ARMINES (FR).

U.S. 7,311,986 (20071225), Multi-function energy system operable as a fuel cell, reformer, or thermal plant, Michael S. Hsu, Ztek Corp.

U.S. 7,311,987 (20071225), Fuel cell and a temperature control system for the fuel cell, Naoyuki Enjoji, Yoshinori Wariishi, Kazuya Sasamoto, and Yuichiro Kosaka, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,311,989 (20071225), Polymer membrane, process for its production and membrane-electrode assembly for solid polymer electrolyte fuel cells, Satoru Hommura, Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,311,990 (20071225), Form-in-place fastening for fuel cell assemblies, Mark K. Debe and Andrew J. L. Steinbach, 3M Innovative Properties Co.

U.S. 7,311,991 (20071225), Hydrogen storage-based electrochemical system and method of preparation, Qunjian Huang, Chang Wei, Tao Wang, and Hai Yang, General Electric Co.

U.S. 7,311,993 (20071225), Polyfluorinated boron cluster anions for lithium electrolytes, Sergei Vladimirovich Ivanov, William Jack Casteel Jr., Guido Peter Pez, and Michael Ulman, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

U.S. 7,311,994 (20071225), Separator for lithium ion secondary battery and lithium ion secondary battery provided therewith, Masahide Sugiyama, Hiroki Totsuka, Shuuji Mitani, and Masanori Takahata, Tomoegawa Paper Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,311,995 (20071225), Electrochemical cell, Yoshibumi Nakamura, Kensuke Tahara, Shunji Watanabe, Tsugio Sakai, and Hideharu Onodera, SII Micro Parts Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,311,996 (20071225), Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Hidetoshi Ito, Yoshiaki Naruse, and Takeru Yamamoto, Sony Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,311,997 (20071225), Rechargeable batteries based on nonconjugated conductive polymers, Mrinal Thakur.

U.S. 7,311,998 (20071225), Lithium polymer battery with a crosslinked electrolyte, Tsutomu Sada, Kazunari Takeda, Naoto Nishimura, Takehito Mitate, Naoto Torata, Kazuo Yamada, and Motoaki Nishijima, Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,311,999 (20071225), Anode for a battery and a battery using an anode, Kenichi Kawase, Tomoo Takada, and Yukio Miyaki, Sony Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,312,000 (20071225), Electrolytic solution for secondary battery and secondary battery containing the same, Jiro Iriyama, Yukiko Morioka, Sigeyuki Iwasa, Kentaro Nakahara, Masaharu Satoh, and Masahiro Suguro, NEC Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,312,001 (20071225), Non-aqueous electrolytic solution and lithium battery employing the same, Ju-yup Kim, Myung-dong Cho, and Young-gyoon Ryu, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,312,002 (20071225), Lithium secondary cell, Takayuki Aoshima, Iwao Soga, and Mitsuharu Kobayashi, Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,312,174 (20071225), Method for preparing highly loaded, highly dispersed platinum metal on a carbon substrate, John R. Regalbuto and Xianghong Hao, The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.

U.S. 7,312,270 (20071225), Fuel cell hose, Ryo Hirai and Ayumu Ikemoto, Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,312,292 (20071225), Polycyclic polymers containing pendant ion conducting moieties, Ravi Ravikiran, Xiaoming Wu, Larry F. Rhodes, Robert A. Shick, Hiroko Nakano, Hirotaka Nonaka, Huabin Wang, Saikumar Jayaraman, Robert John Duff, and John-Henry Lipian, Promerus LLC.

U.S. 7,312,440 (20071225), Integrated micro fuel processor and flow delivery infrastructure, F. Levent Degertekin and Andrei G. Fedorov, Georgia Tech Research Corp.

U.S. 7,312,596 (20071225), Device and method for equalizing the charge of serially connected capacitors belonging to a double layer capacitor, Stephan Bolz, Martin Götzenberger, Rainer Knorr, and Günther Lugert, Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (DE).

U.S. 7,312,653 (20071225), NMOS reverse battery protection, Keming Chen and David Tang, GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.

U.S. 7,312,690 (20071225), Temperature sensor, David Geer, General Electric Co.

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