u.s. battery & fuel cell patents

Official Gazette, Volume 1330 (May 2008)

U.S. 7,367,349 (20080506), Method for opening tank shut-off valves in gas feeding systems with connected tanks, Jurgen Thyroff, GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.

U.S.7,367,360 (20080506), Integrated piping plate, machining method for same, machining apparatus for same, and machining equipment for same, Haretaro Hidaka and Michio Tsukamoto, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (JP).

U.S.7,367,847 (20080506), Integrated module connection for HEV battery, Robert Felix Gutman, Weiping Zhao, and Robert J. Young, Alcoa Fujikura Ltd.

U.S.7,367,996 (20080506), Heat transfer optimization in multi shelled reformers, Lawrence G. Clawson, Mark R. Hagan, Chunming Frank Qi, and William F. Northrop, Nuvera Fuel Cells, Inc.

U.S.7,368,068 (20080506), Sulfonic group-containing polyarylene block copolymer, process for production thereof, solid polymer electrolyte and proton conductive membrane, Takashi Okada, Mayumi Shinoda, Kimihiko Yoshii, Yousuke Konno, Toshihiro Otsuki, and Kohei Goto, JSR Corp. (JP).

U.S.7,368,069 (20080506), PTC thermistor, Hisanao Tosaka and Yasuhide Yamashita, TDK Corp. (JP).

U.S.7,368,071 (20080506), Cathode compositions for lithium ion batteries, Jeffrey R. Dahn and Zhonghua Lu, 3M Innovative Properties Co.

U.S.7,368,095 (20080506), Composite oxide for solid oxide fuel cell and method for preparation thereof, Fumio Munakata, Kenji Furuya, Masaharu Hatano, Yoshinori Fujie, and Manabu Suhara, Seimi Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S.7,368,190 (20080506), Miniature biological fuel cell that is operational under physiological conditions, and associated devices and methods, Adam Heller, Nicholas Mano, Hyug-Han Kim, Yongchao Zhang, Fei Mao, Ting Chen, and Scott Calabrese Barton, Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.

U.S.7,368,191 (20080506), Electrode array for use in electrochemical cells, Marc D. Andelman and Jon Zulkiewicz, Biosource, Inc.

U.S.7,368,192 (20080506), Method and apparatus for hydrogen detection and dilution, William H. Pettit, Steven G. Goebel, and Frederick T. Wagner, General Motors Corp.

U.S.7,368,193 (20080506), Temperature-based vehicle wakeup strategy to initiate fuel cell freeze protection, Kurt Osborne, Milos Milacic, William Sanderson, Fred Brighton, Jon Beasley, Donald Franks, and Richard Scholer, Ford Motor Co.

U.S.7,368,194 (20080506), Fuel processor feedstock delivery system, Anthony J. Dickman, David J. Edlund, and William A. Pledger, IdaTech, LLC.

U.S.7,368,195 (20080506), System and method for early detection of contaminants in a fuel processing system, David J. Edlund and William A. Pledger, IdaTech, LLC.

U.S.7,368,196 (20080506), Cold start pre-heater for a fuel cell system, Dirk M. Wexel and Ralph T. J. Hobmeyr, General Motors Corp.

U.S.7,368,198 (20080506), Polymer nanocomposite membrane and fuel cell using the same, Hae-kyoung Kim, Jae-sung Lee, Chang-houn Rhee, and Hyuk Chang, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S.7,368,199 (20080506), Fuel cell stack, Yoshinori Wariishi and Narutoshi Sugita, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S.7,368,200 (20080506), Composite polymer electrolyte membranes and electrode assemblies for reducing fuel crossover in direct liquid feed fuel cells, Yimin Zhu, Ruiming Zhang, Nona DeCastro, Bogdan Gurau, and Sharon Blair, Tekion, Inc. (CA).

U.S.7,368,201 (20080506), Box for set of electric storage batteries, Claude Maurice Druelle and Pierre Georges Lenain, Hawker SA (FR).

U.S.7,368,202 (20080506), Electrochemical device having opposing electrodes, Masato Kurihara, Tadashi Suzuki, Atsushi Sano, Hisashi Suzuki, Toshinobu Miyakoshi, and Satoshi Maruyama, TDK Corp. (JP).

U.S.7,368,203 (20080506), Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary cell, Masato Iwanaga, Kazuyasu Fujiwara, Ryuji Ohshita, Masayuki Terasaka, and Masatoshi Takahashi, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S.7,368,513 (20080506), Water-soluble electrically insulative composition, modifications, and applications thereof, Wyatt B. Orsbon, Rex A. Hodge, and Rolf R. Becker, SemGreen, LP.

U.S.7,371,334 (20080513), Cooling agents for cooling systems in fuel cell drives containing azole derivatives, Bernd Wenderoth, Stefan Dambach, Ladislaus Meszaros, and Uwe Fidorra, BASF Aktiengesellschaft (DE).

U.S.7,371,338 (20080513), Metal fluorides as electrode materials, Glenn G. Amatucci, Rutgers, The State University.

U.S.7,371,476 (20080513), Fuel cell system and related control method, Takeshi Aso, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S.7,371,477 (20080513), Exhaust gas processing device for fuel cell, Akio Yamamoto, Kazunori Fukuma, Takatsugu Koyama, Hideo Numata, and Masahiro Matsutani, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S.7,371,479 (20080513), Method for fullerene derivative and the fullerene derivative proton conductor and electrochemical device, Berthold Nuber, Sony Corp. (JP).

U.S.7,371,480 (20080513), Silica sol composition, membrane electrode assembly with proton-exchange membrane, and fuel cell, Michio Ono, Koji Wariishi, Kimiatsu Nomura, and Wataru Kikuchi, FUJIFILM Corp. (JP).

U.S.7,371,481 (20080513), Electrode having macropores and micropores therein, Laurie S. Mittelstadt, Patricia A. Beck, Yoocham Jeon, and Alfred I-Tsung Pan, Hewlett-Packard Development Co., LP.

U.S.7,371,482 (20080513), Lithium transition-metal phosphate powder for rechargeable batteries, Calin Wurm, Mathieu Morcrette, Sylvain Gwizdala, and Christian Masquelier, Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR) and Umicore (BE).

U.S.7,372,234 (20080513), Charge control device and battery pack employing it, Masaaki Fujii, Rohm Co., Ltd (JP).

U.S.7,372,235 (20080513), Charging control circuit and charging device including charging transistor control unit, Kiyoshi Mori and Manabu Okamoto, NEC Electronics Corp. (JP).

U.S.7,372,236 (20080513), Charger and DC-DC converter, Kimiyoshi Kobayashi, Shindengen Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S.7,372,237 (20080513), Method and apparatus for regulating charging of electrochemical cells using cell temperature increase rate, William C. Bushong, Viet H. Vu, and Michael Root, Rovcal, Inc.

U.S.7,373,133 (20080513), Recharging method and apparatus, Marlin H. Mickle, Christopher C. Capelli, Harold Swift, Leonid Matts, Minhong Mi, and Charles E. Greene, University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education.

U.S.7,373,264 (20080513), Method and apparatus for generalized recursive least-squares process for battery state of charge and state of health, Mark W. Verbrugge, Edward D. Tate Jr., Damon R. Frisch, and Brian J. Koch, General Motors Corp.

U.S.7,373,819 (20080520), Stress sensitive humidity sensor based on a MEMS structure, Kevin J. Engler and Jamie W. Speldrich, Honeywell International Inc.

U.S.7,374,332 (20080520), Method, device and system for mixing liquids, Kusunoki Higashino, Yasuhiro Sando, and Nobuhisa Ishida, Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc. (JP).

U.S.7,374,398 (20080520), Automotive compressor, Paolo Marchese, Fabio Pesola, Dario Caenazzo, and Paolo Delzanno, CRF Societá Consortile per Azioni (IT).

U.S.7,374,452 (20080520), Battery accommodating structure and mobile terminal, Katsushige Kohri, Yoshiya Matsumoto, Kouji Hirata, and Yoshito Fukata, Fujitsu Ltd. (JP) and NTT DoCoMo, Inc. (JP).

U.S.7,374,460 (20080520), Electrical connector assembly, Seralaathan Hariharesan, Brock Dennison, and Jon Kenneth Lampert, Traxxas LP.

U.S.7,374,464 (20080520), Quick connection battery terminal, Aguinaldo Vicenza, Pedro LaMartine de Faria, and Djalma Adelino de Oliveira, Tyco Electronics Brasil Ltd. (BR).

U.S.7,374,591 (20080520), Method for starting a gas generating system, Marc Sommer and Bernhard Vogel, Daimler AG (DE).

U.S.7,374,832 (20080520), Direct methanol fuel cell system, portable electronic appliance, and method of detecting an amount of liquid fuel remaining in direct methanol type fuel cell system, Hirohisa Miyamoto, Norihiro Tomimatsu, and Nobuo Shibuya, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP).

U.S.7,374,833 (20080520), Device for a fuel cell supply, Manfred Stute, DaimlerChrysler AG (DE).

U.S.7,374,834 (20080520), Gas flow panels integrated with solid oxide fuel cell stacks, John R. Jewulski, Kevin Krist, Chakravarthy Sishtla, Joe Pondo, Randy Petri, and Dave Goodwin, Gas Technology Institute.

U.S.7,374,835 (20080520), Fuel cell element, Kevin Kendall (GB) and Caine Finnerty.

U.S.7,374,836 (20080520), Fuel cell apparatus, Satoshi Mogi and Masaaki Shibata, Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S.7,374,837 (20080520), Liquid electrochemical cell stacks and manufacturing methods for same, Paul Osenar, Paul Sabin, Mohammad Enayetullah, and Richard M. Formato, Protonex Technology Corp.

U.S.7,374,838 (20080520), Electrochemical fuel cell with fluid distribution layer having non-uniform permeability, Emerson R. Gallagher, Ballard Power Systems Inc. (CA).

U.S.7,374,839 (20080520), Method and apparatus for dissolving crystals, Charles A. Van Breemen.

U.S.7,374,840 (20080520), Centrifugally atomized zinc alloy powder for alkaline batteries, Yvan Strauven and Bruno Gay, Umicore (BE).

U.S.7,374,841 (20080520), Positive electrode active matter and secondary battery using this, Yosuke Hosoya and Yoshikatsu Yamamoto, Sony Corp. (JP).

U.S.7,374,842 (20080520), Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Yoshiyuki Ozaki, Kazuhiro Ota, Junichi Yamaura, and Takabumi Fujii, Matsushita Battery Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S.7,374,843 (20080520), Polyolefin microporous membrane and method of evaluating the same, Masayuki Adachi, Takashi Ikemoto, and Hiroshi Sogo, Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corp. (JP).

U.S.7,375,051 (20080520), Method for making hydrogen using a gold containing water-gas shift catalyst, Alexander Kuperman and Michael E. Moir.

U.S.7,375,176 (20080520), Liquid crystal poly(phenylene sulfonic acids), Morton H. Litt and Sergio Granados-Focil.

U.S.7,375,417 (20080520), NANO IC packaging, Bao Tran.

U.S.7,375,491 (20080520), Battery charge circuit with multi-charge stage and method thereof, Sheng-Chan Lin, Sunjett Corp. (TW).

U.S.7,375,492 (20080520), Inductively charged battery pack, John Charles Calhoon, Leroy B. Keely, and William Mitchell, Microsoft Corp.

U.S.7,375,493 (20080520), Inductive battery charger, John Charles Calhoon, Leroy B. Keely, and William Mitchell, Microsoft Corp.

U.S.7,375,495 (20080520), Method for determination of the charge drawn by an energy storage battery, Gerolf Richter and Ingo Koch, VB Autobatterie GmbH (DE).

U.S.7,375,496 (20080520), Discharge methodologies for lithium/silver vanadium oxide cells to manage voltage delay and permanent RDC growth region, Hong Gan, Noelle Waite, Kenneth Syracuse, and Esther S. Takeuchi, Wilson Greatbatch Technologies, Inc.

U.S.7,375,497 (20080520), State of charge tracking system for battery systems, Robert Melichar, Cobasys, LLC.

U.S.7,375,498 (20080520), Battery pack, Hiroyoshi Yamamoto, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S.7,377,150 (20080527), Analyzer, Fuminobu Tezuka, Yoshiyuki Isozaki, and Yasuko Noritomi, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP).

U.S.7,377,235 (20080527), Heat exchanger for hydrogen-operated fuel supply systems, Juergen Turini, Johann Schnagl, and Christopher von Kuensberg Sarre, Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft (DE).

U.S.7,377,294 (20080527), Gas cooling methods for high pressure fuel storage tanks on vehicles powered by compressed natural gas or hydrogen, Kiyoshi Handa, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S.7,377,948 (20080527), Layered electrochemical cell and manufacturing method therefor, Sadeg M. Faris, Reveo, Inc.

U.S.7,377,950 (20080527), Method for operating a plant for the steam reforming of hydrocarbons and corresponding plant, Stefan Brauchle and Matthias Wolfsteiner, NuCellSys GmbH (DE).

U.S.7,378,008 (20080527), Liquid electrochemical gas sensor, Tomohiro Inoue and Yuki Fujimori, Figaro Engineering Inc. (JP).

U.S.7,378,034 (20080527), Ionic compounds with a delocalized anionic charge, and their use as ion conducting components or as catalysts, Michel Armand, Christophe Michot, Yurii Yagupolskii, Lev Yagupolskii, Andrej Bezdudny, and Natalya Kondratenko, Universite de Montreal (CA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR), and Institute of Organic Chemistry National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (UA).

U.S.7,378,041 (20080527), Electrode material for lithium secondary battery, electrode structure comprising the electrode material and secondary battery comprising the electrode structure, Masaya Asao, Soichiro Kawakami, and Takao Ogura, Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S.7,378,166 (20080527), Cell voltage measuring device for fuel cell, Hideaki Kikuchi, Masahiko Sato, and Toshiaki Ariyoshi, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S.7,378,167 (20080527), Separator passage structure of fuel cell, Seiji Mizuno, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S.7,378,168 (20080527), Fluid regulating microvalve assembly for fluid consuming cells, Nobuhiro Hase, Hiroki Kusakabe, Hideo Ohara, Shinsuke Takeguchi, Yoshiaki Yamamoto, and Tatsuto Yamazaki, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S.7,378,169 (20080527), Polymer electrolyte fuel cell and method for operation thereof, Pascal Archer and Nathalie Cornet, Renault sas (FR).

U.S.7,378,171 (20080527), Fuel cell, Liqing Hu, Shen-Li High Tech Co., Ltd. (CN).

U.S.7,378,172 (20080527), Tubular membrane electrode assembly with leading wire, Hwei-Lang Chang, Hen-Rong Chang, Kuo-Lon Shieh, and Pi-Hsin Chung, Atomic Energy Council-Institute of Nuclear Energy Research (TW).

U.S.7,378,173 (20080527), Fuel cells with enhanced via fill compositions and/or enhanced via fill geometries, Michael E. Badding, Jacqueline L. Brown, Thomas D. Ketcham, Susan L. Schiefelbein, Dell J. St. Julien, and Raja R. Wusirika, Corning Inc.

U.S.7,378,174 (20080527), Fuel cell module, Nigel T. Hart, Gary J. Wright, and Gerard D. Agnew, Rolls-Royce plc (GB).

U.S.7,378,175 (20080527), Fuel cell and small electric equipment, Sotomitsu Ikeda, Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S.7,378,176 (20080527), Membranes and electrochemical cells incorporating such membranes, Gerard Francis McLean, Tran Ngo, Ned Djilali, Anna Stukas, and Jeremy Schrooten, Angstrom Power Inc. (CA).

U.S.7,378,177 (20080527), Electrochemical cell bipolar plate, Greg A. Hanlon and David E. Henderson, Proton Energy Systems, Inc.

U.S.7,378,178 (20080527), Catalyst support material for fuel cell, Robert Angelo Mercuri, GrafTech International Holdings Inc.

U.S.7,378,179 (20080527), Battery accommodation casing, battery module and assembled battery, Osamu Shimamura and Hideaki Horie, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S.7,378,180 (20080527), Air electrode batteries, Brian Edward Causton, Frank Davis, Neville Keith Lacey, and Larry Liaobo Yu, The Gillette Co.

U.S.7,378,181 (20080527), Electric storage battery construction and method of manufacture, David M. Skinlo, Quallion LLC.

U.S.7,378,182 (20080527), Cylindrical alkaline storage battery, Taishi Maeda, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S.7,378,183 (20080527), Sealed cell using film outer casing body, Yasunobu Kodama and Tomohiko Yokoyama, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S.7,378,184 (20080527), Battery holder, Jih-Chen Yeh, High Tech Computer, Corp. (TW).

U.S.7,378,185 (20080527), Prismatic lithium secondary battery having a porous heat resistant layer, Masato Fujikawa, Kohei Suzuki, Kaoru Inoue, and Mikinari Shimada, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S.7,378,186 (20080527), Flat non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell, Masami Suzuki, Muneto Hayami, Kazuo Udagawa, Kazuo Iizuka, Naomi Ishihara, Satoshi Hirahara, Hirotaka Sakai, Kiyoto Yoda, and Masataka Shikota, Toshiba Battery Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S.7,378,187 (20080527), Integrated cap assembly of a secondary battery and fabricating method thereof, Young Taek Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S.7,378,189 (20080527), Electrode material for lithium secondary battery, electrode structure employing electrode material, and lithium secondary battery having electrode structure, Kazunari Hagiwara, Soichiro Kawakami, and Nobuyuki Suzuki, Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S.7,378,190 (20080527), Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Atsushi Yanai, Yoshinori Kida, and Toshiyuki Nohma, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S.7,378,191 (20080527), Graphite particles and lithium secondary battery using the same as negative electrode, Yoshito Ishii, Tatsuya Nishida, Atsushi Fujita, and Kazuo Yamada, Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S.7,378,192 (20080527), Nonaqueous electrolyte battery, Hiroshi Yoshizawa, Takayuki Shirane, Yoshiaki Nitta, and Kazuhiro Okamura, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S.7,378,193 (20080527), Polysiloxane-based compound and solid polymer electrolyte composition using the same, Yongku Kang, Changjin Lee, and Jun Kyoung Lee, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KR).

U.S.7,378,194 (20080527), Materials useful as electrolytic solutes, Christophe Michot, Michel Armand, Michel Gauthier, and Nathalie Ravet, ACEP, Inc. (CA), Centre de la Recherche Scientifique (CA), and Universite de Montreal (CA).

U.S.7,378,368 (20080527), Catalyst for reforming hydrocarbon and method for preparation thereof, and process for reforming hydrocarbon using said catalyst, Tetsuya Fukunaga, Tomoki Yanagino, Kozo Takatsu, and Takashi Umeki, Idemitsu Kosan, Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S.7,378,450 (20080527), Aerogel and metallic compositions, Can Erkey and Hiroaki S. Hara, University of Connecticut.

U.S.7,378,471 (20080527), Polymer comprising terminal sulfonic acid group, and polymer electrolyte and fuel cell using the same, Do-yun Kim, Min-ju Jeong, Myung-sup Jung, and Bong-seok Moon, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S.7,378,818 (20080527), Bidirectional power converter for balancing state of charge among series connected electrical energy storage units, J. Thomas Fowler, Allan Chertok, Darrell J. King, Gerald R. Larocque, Per Onnerud, and Jay J. Shi, Tiax LLC.

U.S.7,378,819 (20080527), Systems and methods for regulating pulsed pre-charge current in a battery system, Ligong Wang, John J. Breen, and Joey M. Goodroe, Dell Products LP.

U.S.7,379,555 (20080527), Precision micro-hole for extended life batteries, Richard Gable, Ross Baker, and Tom O'Hara, Insound Medical, Inc.

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