u.s. battery & fuel cell patents

Official Gazette, Volume 1334 (September 2008)

U.S. 7,419,060 (20080902), Integrated fuel container and impurity removal cartridge, Alan R. Arthur and Philip H. Harding, Hewlett-Packard Development Co., LP.

U.S. 7,419,512 (20080902), Electrode, battery using the same and method for manufacturing the electrode, Yoshinari Sasaki, Koji Shimotoku, and Hidehisa Murase, Sony Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,419,518 (20080902), Hydrogen generator and fuel cell system, Kunihiro Ukai, Kiyoshi Taguchi, Hidenobu Wakita, Seiji Fujihara, and Yukimune Kani, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,419,546 (20080902), Gas diffusion electrodes, membrane-electrode assemblies and method for the production thereof, Andrea F. Gulla, Robert J. Allen, Emory De Castro, and Enrico Ramunni, BASF Fuel Cell GmbH (DE).

U.S. 7,419,580 (20080902), Methods and apparatus for the oxidation of glucose molecules, Kwong-Yu Chan, Xin Zhang, Chung Man Lam, Alfred C. C. Tseung, Pei Kang Shen, and Jin Kua You, The University of Hong Kong (HK).

U.S. 7,419,617 (20080902), Coolant comprising azole derivatives for cooling systems in fuel-cell drives, Bernd Wenderoth, Stefan Dambach, Ladislaus Meszaros, and Uwe Fidorra, BASF Aktiengesellschaft (DE).

U.S. 7,419,618 (20080902), Coolant comprising azole derivatives for cooling systems in fuel-cell drives, Bernd Wenderoth, Stefan Dambach, Ladislaus Meszaros, and Uwe Fidorra, BASF Aktiengesellschaft (DE).

U.S. 7,419,623 (20080902), Proton conducting mediums for electrochemical devices and electrochemical devices comprising the same, Sergei Vladimirovich Ivanov, William Jack Casteel Jr., and Guido Peter Pez, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

U.S. 7,419,648 (20080902), Process for the production of hydrogen and carbon dioxide, Johannes Alfonsius Maria Kuipers, Charudatta Subhash Patil, and Martin Van Sint Annaland, Shell Oil Co.

U.S. 7,419,649 (20080902), Macroreticular carbonaceous material useful in energy storing devices, Eric Gustave Lundquist and Garth R. Parker.

U.S. 7,419,720 (20080902), Conductive plastic molding material, the use thereof and moulded bodies produced therefrom, Achim Hofmann, Hans-Gerhard Fritz, and Ralf Kaiser, Ticona GmbH (DE).

U.S. 7,419,731 (20080902), Fuel container with reticulated material, Michael P. Manning, Ashish K. Modi, Xiaoming Ren, and Lena A. Guleserian, MTI MicroFuel Cells, Inc.

U.S. 7,419,732 (20080902), Method for reducing degradation in a fuel cell, Wen Liu, William B. Johnson, and Simon J. C. Cleghorn, Gore Enterprise Holdings, Inc.

U.S. 7,419,733 (20080902), Fuel cell system having a burner with a flame detection rod therein, Masataka Kadowaki, Akira Fuju, Yasuo Miyake, Masatoshi Ueda, Keigo Miyai, and Yukinori Akiyama, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,419,734 (20080902), Method and apparatus for fuel cell systems, Martin T. Pearson, Ballard Power Systems, Inc. (CA).

U.S. 7,419,735 (20080902), Fuel cell system, method of controlling the same, and vehicle mounted with the same, Nobuo Fujita, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,419,736 (20080902), Mixed ion conductor, Noboru Taniguchi, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,419,737 (20080902), Fuel supply device for direct methanol fuel cells, Jung-min Oh, Hye-jung Cho, and Kyoung-hwan Choi, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,419,738 (20080902), Module for a fuel cell arrangement comprising plates joined by a seal, Karl-Heinz Maus, Werner Heinl, and Hans-Joachim vom Stein, AB SKF (SE).

U.S. 7,419,739 (20080902), Flexible bipolar plate, Yeh-Hung Lai, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 7,419,740 (20080902), Membrane electrode unit for polymer electrolyte fuel cells and a process for the production thereof, Matthias Binder, Ralf Zuber, Markus Vogt, and Gerhard Heinz, Unicore AG & Co.. KG (DE).

U.S. 7,419,741 (20080902), Fuel cell cathode catalyst, George D. Vernstrom, Radoslav Atanasoski, Mark K. Debe, Gregory M. Haugen, Krzysztof A Lewinski, and Andrew J. L. Steinbach, 3M Innovative Properties Co.

U.S. 7,419,743 (20080902), Cylindrical lithium battery resistant to breakage of the porous heat resistant layer, Masato Fujikawa, Kohei Suzuki, Kaoru Inoue, and Mikinari Shimada, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,419,744 (20080902), Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and battery pack, Takashi Kishi, Hidesato Saruwatari, and Takashi Kuboki, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP).

U.S. 7,419,745 (20080902), Method of forming an electrode structure useful in energy storage devices, Sanjay Chaturvedi, William Joseph Grieco, and Eric Gustave Lundquist,.

U.S. 7,419,746 (20080902), Solid electrolyte and all solid state battery using the same, Masaya Ugaji, Shinji Mino, Yasuyuki Shibano, and Shuji Ito, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,419,747 (20080902), Electrolyte for secondary battery and secondary battery using same, Koji Utsugi and Mitsuhiro Mori, NEC Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,420,017 (20080902), Process for producing fluorocopolymer, Jun Kanega, Shigeru Kumamoto, and Takashi Enokida, UNIMATEC Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,420,374 (20080902), Battery with remaining electrical power display function and method of the same, Wei-jou Chen, Qisda Corp. (TW) and BenQ Corp. (TW).

U.S. 7,421,356 (20080902), Method and apparatus for measurement of fuel cell high frequency resistance in the presence of large undesirable signals, David Rea, Kenneth L. Kaye, Robert S. Foley, Michael F. Zawisa, and Clark G. Hochgraf, GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.

U.S. 7,422,113 (20080909), Battery container case, Nobuyuki Wakuda and Hiroshi Shibata, FDK Energy Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,422,474 (20080909), Battery terminal clamping device, Mark D. Good.

U.S. 7,422,728 (20080909), Partial oxidation reactor, Luc Nougier, Stéphane Bertholin, and Willy Nastoll, Institut Francais du Petrole (FR).

U.S. 7,422,766 (20080909), Method of fabrication of high power density solid oxide fuel cells, Ai Quoc Pham and Robert S. Glass, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.

U.S. 7,422,809 (20080909), Method and apparatus for regulating electrical power output of a fuel cell system, Joachim Blum, Josef Sonntag, and Manfred Strohmaier, NuCellSys GmbH (DE).

U.S. 7,422,810 (20080909), High temperature fuel cell system and method of operating same, Swaminathan Venkataraman, Matthias Gottmann, and John Finn, Bloom Energy Corp.

U.S. 7,422,811 (20080909), Fuel cell life predicting device and fuel cell system, Eiichi Yasumoto, Shinichi Arisaka, Osamu Sakai, Hideo Kasahara, and Shigeyuki Unoki, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,422,812 (20080909), Solid-oxide fuel cell system having a thermally-regulated cathode air heat exchanger, Karl J. Haltiner Jr. and Sean M. Kelly, Delphi Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 7,422,813 (20080909), Fuel cell systems comprising microfibrous fuel cell elements and methods of making and using same, Ray R. Eshraghi and Yongchao Si, Microcell Corp.

U.S. 7,422,814 (20080909), Fuel cell system, Naoyuki Enjoji, Hidehiko Takase, and Keisuke Andou, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,422,815 (20080909), Fuel cell separator, manufacturing method thereof and fuel cell, Hiromichi Nakata, Masayoshi Yokoi, Joji Yoshimura, Kenichi Suzuki, and Fumio Nonoyama, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,422,816 (20080909), Fuel cell system, Gilbert Erdler, Mirko Lehmann, and Class Müller, Micronas GmbH (DE) and Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg (DE).

U.S. 7,422,818 (20080909), Seal construction for a fuel cell electrolyser and process for making a fuel cell with same, Olav Finkenwirth, Bernd Kuhn, and Hans-Rainer Zerfass, Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (DE) and ElringKlinger AG (DE).

U.S. 7,422,819 (20080909), Ceramic coatings for insulating modular fuel cell cassettes in a solid-oxide fuel cell stack, Gary F. Reisdorf, Joseph M. Keller, Karl J. Haltiner Jr., Subhasish Mukerjee, Kenneth Scott Weil, and John S. Hardy, Delphi Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 7,422,820 (20080909), Solid oxide fuel cell stack, Gerard D. Agnew, Nigel T. Hart, Michael J. Oakely, Mark N Pashley, and Eric W Dean, Rolls-Royce plc (GB).

U.S. 7,422,821 (20080909), On the uniformity of fluid flow rate for interconnecting plate for planar solid oxide fuel cell, Yau Pin Chyou, Tsang Dong Chung, Dung Di Yu, and Yung Neng Cheng, Institute of Nuclear Energy Research (TW).

U.S. 7,422,822 (20080909), Single cell for a solid oxide fuel cell, Kenji Ukai, Kouji Hisada, Kazuo Hata, Norikazu Aikawa, and Masatoshi Shimomura, Toho Gas Co, Ltd. (JP) and Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,422,823 (20080909), Alkali-iron-cobalt phosphates and related electrode active materials, Mohammed Y. Saidi and Haitao Huang, Valence Technology, Inc.

U.S. 7,422,824 (20080909), Active material of positive electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and process for producing the same, Shinji Arimoto, Takahiro Okuyama, Masatoshi Nagayama, and Hiroshi Yoshizawa, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,422,825 (20080909), Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Kaoru Inoue, Kiyomi Kato, Kohei Suzuki, Shigeo Ikuta, Yusuke Fukumoto, and Tetsuya Hayashi, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,422,826 (20080909), In situ thermal polymerization method for making gel polymer lithium ion rechargeable electrochemical cells, Weibing Xing and Esther S. Takeuchi, Greatbatch Ltd.

U.S. 7,422,827 (20080909), Nonaqueous electrolyte, Young Gyu Kim, Seung Kee Kim, Min Seong Kim, and Young Bae Roh, E Square Technologies Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,422,994 (20080909), Platinum-copper-tungsten fuel cell catalyst, Konstantinos Chondroudis, Alexander Gorer, Peter Strasser, Martin Devenney, Qun Fan, Daniel M Giaquinta, Keith James Cendak, Hiroyuki Oyanagi, and Kenta Urata, Symyx Technologies, Inc and Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,423,078 (20080909), Organic-inorganic hybrid material, organic-inorganic hybrid proton-conductive material and fuel cell, Michio Ono, FUJIFILM Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,423,408 (20080909), Monitoring device and method for determining at least one characteristic variable for the state of a battery, Ingo Koch, Helmut Laig-Hoerstebrock, Eberhard Meissner, and Ursula Teutsch, VB Autobatterie GmbH (DE).

U.S. 7,423,409 (20080909), Battery polarity management, Charles E. Burns, David P. Garner, Limin Wang, and Gary R. Ware, American Power Conversion Corp.

U.S. 7,423,410 (20080909), Battery protecting circuit, Katsura Yoshio, Texas Instruments Inc.

U.S. 7,424,926 (20080916), Vehicular battery mounting structure, Takenori Tsuchiya, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,425,231 (20080916), Feed gas contaminant removal in ion transport membrane systems, Michael Francis Carolan and Christopher Francis Miller, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

U.S. 7,425,283 (20080916), Cyclic carbonate-modified siloxane, method of making, non-aqueous electrolytic solution, secondary battery, and capacitor, Tetsuo Nakanishi, Meguru Kashida, and Satoru Miyawaki, Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,425,285 (20080916), 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. 7,425,379 (20080916), Passive electrode blanketing in a fuel cell, Nathaniel Ian Joos, Hydrogenics Corp. (CA).

U.S. 7,425,380 (20080916), Fuel cell system and related method, Tadashi Matoba and Takeaki Obata, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,425,381 (20080916), High temperature seal, John Gilman and Daniel A. Kearl, Hewlett-Packard Development Co., LP.

U.S. 7,425,382 (20080916), Fuel cell assembly, David Champion, Hewlett-Packard Development Co., LP.

U.S. 7,425,383 (20080916), Electrode for polymer electrolyte fuel cell, separator therefore, and polymer electrolyte fuel cell, and generating system using them, Katsunori Nishimura, Masahiro Komachiya, Jinichi Imahashi, Tohru Koyama, and Tomoichi Kamo, Hitachi, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,425,384 (20080916), Direct methanol feed fuel cell and system, Subbarao Surampudi, Harvey A. Frank, Sekharipuram R. Narayanan, William Chun, Barbara Jeffries-Nakamura, Andrew Kindler, and Gerald Halpert, California Institute of Technology.

U.S. 7,425,385 (20080916), Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Kazuhiro Okamura and Keiko Nagata, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,425,386 (20080916), Electrode group for battery and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery using the same, Hideharu Takezawa, Shuji Tsutsumi, and Mikinari Shimada, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,425,387 (20080916), Separator for a lead storage battery, Werner Bohnstedt, Daramic, Inc.

U.S. 7,425,388 (20080916), Electrolyte for a lithium battery and a lithium battery comprising the same, Yong-Chul Park, Won-Il Jung, Geun-Bae Kim, Jae-Phil Cho, and Cheol-Soo Jung, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,425,814 (20080916), Battery pack and remaining battery power calculation method, Yukio Tsuchiya, Hideyuki Sato, and Kazuyasu Nawa, Sony Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,425,815 (20080916), Modulation charging circuitry for battery charging, Yoon Kean Wong and Scott J. Davidson, Palm, Inc.

U.S. 7,425,816 (20080916), Method and system for pulse charging of a lithium-based battery, Gary D. Meyer, Jay J. Rosenbecker, Kevin L. Glasgow, Todd W. Johnson, Karl F. Schuecher, Scott D. Bublitz, and Andrew J. Weber, Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp.

U.S. 7,425,832 (20080916), System and method for measuring internal resistance of electrochemical devices, Ravi B Gopal and Norman Freeman, Hydrogenics Corp. (CA).

U.S. 7,426,103 (20080916), Electric double layer capacitor, control method thereof, and energy storage system using the same, Ryutaro Nozu and Mami Nakamura, Nisshinbo Industries, Inc. (JP).

U.S. 7,426,935 (20080923), Method of discharging high pressure storage vessels, Mirko Schwan, Holger Winkelmann, and Wolfgang Oelerich, GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.

U.S. 7,427,093 (20080923), Mounting structure for vehicle battery pack, Ko Watanabe, Shuji Nagase, and Keiji Shukuya, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,427,156 (20080923), Thermally managed battery enclosure for electric and hybrid electric vehicles, Joseph Mario Ambrosio and Konstantinos Sfakianos, Odyne Corp.

U.S. 7,427,302 (20080923), Method of manufacturing micro-disperse particles of sodium borohydride, Stanley H. Kravitz, Andrew M. Hecht, Alan P. Sylwester, and Nelson S. Bell, Sandia Corp.

U.S. 7,427,304 (20080923), Fuel gas manufacturing apparatus, Hikaru Okada, Satoshi Hanai, and Hideaki Sumi, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,427,359 (20080923), Self-filling wet electrochemical cells by laser processing, Craig B. Arnold and Alberto Pique, The United States of America.

U.S. 7,427,447 (20080923), Fuel cell module and fuel cell motor vehicle, Hiroaki Nishiumi, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,427,448 (20080923), Portable device, case for portable device, and fuel cell structure, Yoshihiro Ito, Nobuaki Nagou, Tsuneo Sato, Seimei Ushiro, Masanoshin Komori, and Yasuhiro Miwa, FUJIFILM Corp. (JP) and FUJINON Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,427,449 (20080923), Integrated oxygen generation and carbon dioxide absorption method apparatus and systems, Michael E. Delaney and Thomas H. Elledge Jr., General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.

U.S. 7,427,450 (20080923), Hybrid fuel cell system with battery capacitor energy storage system, Stephen Raiser, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 7,427,451 (20080923), Fuel cell system, Hiromasa Sakai, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,427,452 (20080923), Operating electrolyte based components, Steven Martin Hudson and Daniel Joinson, Expro North Seal Ltd. (GB).

U.S. 7,427,453 (20080923), Pouched lithium secondary battery, You-Mee Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,427,454 (20080923), Secondary battery, Hwail Uh, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,427,455 (20080923), Anode for lithium metal polymer secondary battery comprising surface patterned anodic current collector and method of preparing the same, Young Gi Lee, Yong Sik Hong, Yong Joon Park, and Kwang Sun Ryu, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (KR).

U.S. 7,427,526 (20080923), Deposited thin films and their use in separation and sacrificial layer applications, Stephen J. Fonash, Wook Jun Nam, Youngchul Lee, Kyuhwan Chang, Daniel J. Hayes, A. Kaan Kalkan, and Sanghoon Bae, The Penn State Research Foundation.

U.S. 7,427,839 (20080923), Inductively powered apparatus, David W. Baarman, Stephen J. McPhilliamy, and Christopher Houghton, Access Business Group International LLC.

U.S. 7,427,850 (20080923), Method of measuring the battery level in a mobile telephone, Sebastian Soyer, VTech Mobile Ltd. (GB).

U.S. 7,427,851 (20080923), Capacitor unit, Junji Takemoto, Shusaku Kawasaki, and Tatehiko Inoue, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,428,137 (20080923), High performance capacitor with high dielectric constant material, Edward J. Dowgiallo Jr.

U.S. 7,429,189 (20080930), Electrical extension lead, Oliver Lerch, Black & Decker Inc.

U.S. 7,429,280 (20080930), Method for producing a membrane for a fuel cell, Hubertus Biegert, Peter Britz, Gabor Toth, and Peter Urban, BDF IP Holdings Ltd. (CA [FC].

U.S. 7,429,371 (20080930), Reversible oxidation of carbon nanotubes, Bruce A. Diner and Ming Zheng, E I du Pont de Nemours and Co.

U.S. 7,429,372 (20080930), Hydrogen storage by reversible hydrogenation of pi-conjugated substrates, Guido Peter Pez, Aaron Raymond Scott, Alan Charles Cooper, and Hansong Cheng, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

U.S. 7,429,428 (20080930), Polymer electrolyte material, production method thereof and membrane electrode assembly for polymer electrolyte fuel cell, Atsushi Watakabe, Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,429,429 (20080930), Fuel cell with thermal conductance of cathode greater than anode, Richard D. Breault, UTC Power Corp.

U.S. 7,429,431 (20080930), Battery and related manufacturing method, Kyoichi Watanabe and Hideaki Horie, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,429,432 (20080930), Battery pack having circuit substrate resin molded to battery, Katsumi Kozu, Takeshi Ishimaru, Yoshiki Osawa, Satoshi Kataoka, Iichiro Mori, Koichi Toriyama, Masahiro Mizuta, Tatsuhisa Chikada, and Yasuhiro Ogawa, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,429,433 (20080930), Positive electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte battery and method of producing the same and non-aqueous electrolyte battery, Masashi Otsuki, Shinichi Eguchi, and Hiroshi Kanno, Bridgestone Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,429,434 (20080930), Cathode active material powder for lithium secondary battery, Takuya Mihara, Yukimitsu Wakasugi, Naoshi Saito, and Manabu Suhara, Seimi Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,429,435 (20080930), Method for preparing positive electrode active material for non-aqueous secondary battery, Kenji Nakane and Hiroshi Inukai, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,429,436 (20080930), Method for determining state of charge of lead-acid batteries of various specific gravities, Hector M. Atehortua, Steven Hoenig, Thirumalai G. Palanisamy, and Harmohan N. Singh, Honeywell International Inc.

U.S. 7,429,849 (20080930), Method and apparatus for confirming the charge amount and degradation state of a battery, a storage medium, an information processing apparatus, and an electronic apparatus, Hideki Shoji, Toyo System Co., Ltd. (JP).

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