u.s. battery & fuel cell patents

Official Gazette, Volume 1336 (November 2008)

U.S. 7,445,525 (20081104), Battery terminal, Shuji Kosuge, Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,445,647 (20081104), Method for making a single unit fuel cell, Edward Lee Davis and Benjamin Franklin Schafer, Hydra Fuel Cell Corp.

U.S. 7,445,705 (20081104), Particle filter for fuel cell coolant, Mukesh Kumar, Stephen Fan, and George Shih, Ford Motor Co.

U.S. 7,445,742 (20081104), Imprinting nanoscale patterns for catalysis and fuel cells, Yong Chen, David Hacklernan, Laurie S. Mittelstadt, Yoocham Jeon, and Richard Stanley Williams, Hewlett-Packard Development Co., LP.

U.S. 7,445,814 (20081104), Methods of making porous cermet and ceramic films, Peter Mardilovich, Gregory S. Herman, and James O'Neil, Hewlett-Packard Development Co., LP.

U.S. 7,445,859 (20081104), Organic fuel cell methods and apparatus, Eugene Vamos, Subbarao Surampudi, Sekharipuram R. Narayanan, Harvey A. Frank, Gerald Halpert, George A. Olah, and G. K. Surya Prakash, California Institute of Technology.

U.S. 7,445,860 (20081104), Electrical power generator, Thomas Rezachek and Roland A. Wood, Honeywell International Inc.

U.S. 7,445,861 (20081104), Method for detecting abnormality in fuel cell, Yoshikazu Murakami, Junji Uehara, Masanori Hayashi, and Hiromichi Yoshida, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,445,862 (20081104), Solid oxide fuel cell device, Shigeaki Suganuma, Yasue Tokutake, Michio Horiuchi, and Misa Watanabe, Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,445,863 (20081104), Fuel cell with helical structure, Pascal Tiquet and Didier Marsacq, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (FR).

U.S. 7,445,864 (20081104), Functionalized polyazoles, method for the production thereof, and use thereof, Klaus Muellen, Markus Klapper, Vesselin Sinigersky, Weicheng Wu, Oemer Uensal, and Jochen Baurmeister, BASF Fuel Cell GmbH (DE).

U.S. 7,445,865 (20081104), Fuel cell, Shuhei Goto, Katsuhiko Kohyama, Ken Takahashi, So Fujiwara, Ryugo Suzuki, and Narutoshi Sugita, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,445,866 (20081104), Fuel cell stack, Seiji Sugiura, Jun Kondo, Shigeru Inai, Hiromichi Yoshida, Hiroyuki Tanaka, and Naoki Mitsuta, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,445,867 (20081104), Electrode structure for solid-polymer type fuel cell, Naoki Mitsuta, Nagayuki Kanaoka, Yoichi Asano, and Hiroshi Sohma, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,445,868 (20081104), Battery packs, Yoshito Ikeda, Hironobu Moriyama, and Yasuhiro Fujita, Sony Chemical & Information Device Corp. (JP) and Sony Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,445,869 (20081104), Gasket, a bipolar battery and a method for manufacturing a bipolar battery with such a gasket, Neil H. Puester, David Hock, and Lars Fredriksson, Nilar International AB (SE).

U.S. 7,445,870 (20081104), Organic electrolyte battery, Tomohiro Taguchi, Kenichiro Nakahara, and Yukinori Hato, Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,445,871 (20081104), Process of preparing a surface-treated positive active material for a lithium secondary battery, Jun-Won Suh and Ho-Jin Kweon, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,445,872 (20081104), Organic electrolytic solution and lithium battery using the same, Ju-yup Kim, Myung-dong Cho, and Young-gyoon Ryu, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,446,165 (20081104), Benzimidazole compound, Chong-kyu Shin, Young-ji Tae, and Bong-keun Lee, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,446,501 (20081104), Integrated fuel cell controller for devices, Zeev Aleyraz, Zohar Peleg, and Gennadi Finkelshtain, More Energy Ltd.

U.S. 7,446,502 (20081104), Battery charger for batteries of different types, Gabriel Yui Lung Tong, Totex Design Ltd. (HK).

U.S. 7,446,503 (20081104), Method and apparatus for charging batteries using a converter, David A. Stanzel and Jon O. Reynolds, Illinois Tool Works Inc.

U.S. 7,446,504 (20081104), System, method, and article of manufacture for determining an estimated battery state vector, Gregory L. Plett, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,446,505 (20081104), System and method for calculating a state of charge of a battery, Christopher R. Paul, Benjamin Bekritsky, and Joseph Cabana, Symbol Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 7,446,508 (20081104), Battery charger for charging lithium-ion battery, Takao Aradachi, Kazuhiko Funabashi, Hiroyuki Hanawa, and Masayuki Ogura, Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,446,509 (20081104), Intelligent battery charging system, John E. James, Gem Power, LLC.

U.S. 7,446,510 (20081104), Diagnosis method for state-of-health of batteries, Hung-Liang Chou, Yu-Hua Sun, Kuen-Der Wu, Chin-Chang Wu, Ming-Hsun Hsieh, and Ya-Tsung Feng, Ablerex Electronics Co., Ltd. (TW).

U.S. 7,446,536 (20081104), Scan tool for electronic battery tester, Kevin I. Bertness, Midtronics, Inc.

U.S. 7,446,575 (20081104), Capacitor charging methods and apparatuses that use a secure parallel monitoring circuit, Kohichi Yano and Akihiko Fujiwara, Ricoh Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,446,998 (20081104), Current collector for a double electric layer capacitor, Samvel Avakovich Kazaryan, Valery Pavlovich Nedoshivin, Vladimir Alexandrovich Kazarov, Gamir Galievich Kharisov, Sergey Vitalievich Litvinenko, and Sergey Nikolaevich Razumov, Universal Supercapacitors LLC.

U.S. 7,448,441 (20081111), Carbon nanotube heat-exchange systems, Terry Joseph Hendricks and Michael J. Heben, Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC.

U.S. 7,448,497 (20081111), Batteries, accessories, marketing bundles and marketing methods, Jay Z. Muchin and David J. Merten, FCK, LLC.

U.S. 7,449,031 (20081111), Polarized electrode for electric double layer capacitor, method for producing the same and electric double layer capacitor, Ronald A. Underwood, Terry S. Davison, Hira V. Thapliyal, and Philip E Eggers, ArthroCare Corp.

U.S. 7,449,033 (20081111), Extruded battery components and manufacturing process, Ian M. Ward, Hugh V. S. Hubbard, Paul L. Carr, and William F. Tyldesley, Leeds Lithium Power Ltd. (GB).

U.S. 7,449,046 (20081111), Method and arrangement for purifying gases fed to a fuel cell by removing operational unfavorable constituents, Dirk Schroeter, Daimler AG (DE).

U.S. 7,449,090 (20081111), Electrochemical apparatus with retractable electrode, Craig C. Andrews, Oliver J. Murphy, and Brian Boyd, Lynntech, Inc.

U.S. 7,449,111 (20081111), Resins containing ionic or ionizable groups with small domain sizes and improved conductivity, Lotfi Hedhli, Isabelle Decker, Patrick M. Piccione, Holger Amort, Scott R. Gaboury, and Fabienne Piroux, Arkema Inc.

U.S. 7,449,112 (20081111), Crosslinked polyvinyl alcohol-based polymer membrane and a process of its preparation, Soo-Bok Lee, Jeong Hoon Kim, In Jun Park, Dong-Kwon Kim, Jong-Wook Ha, Bong-Jun Chang, Kwang-Won Lee, Kwang-Han Kim, Sang-yun Lee, Sang-Man Ahn, Seung-Hak Choi, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KR).

U.S. 7,449,132 (20081111), Proton conductive composition and proton conductive membrane, Mayumi Kakuta, Toshihiro Otsuki, Nagayuki Kanaoka, Masaaki Nanaumi, Yoichi Asano, and Ryoichiro Takahashi, JSR Corp. (JP) and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,449,214 (20081111), Process for the preparation of solid oxide fuel cell, Niels Christiansen Jesper Norsk, Haldor Topsoe A/S (DK).

U.S. 7,449,258 (20081111), Integrated fuel cell stack thermostat, Michael S. Zanoni and Daniel F. Woolley, Plug Power, Inc.

U.S. 7,449,259 (20081111), Power converter architecture and method for integrated fuel cell based power supplies, Lizhi Zhu, Richard J Hampo, and Brian W. Wells, NuCellSys GmbH (DE).

U.S. 7,449,260 (20081111), Fuel cell stack including hydrogen pumping fuel cells, Leslie L. Van Dine, UTC Power Corp.

U.S. 7,449,261 (20081111), Holding member for holding an electrochemical cell, a holding substrate for the same, an electrochemical system and a connecting member for electrochemical cells, Shigenori Ito, Takashi Ryu, Sota Shimizu, Kiyoshi Okumura, and Mitsuru Hattori, NGK Insulators, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,449,262 (20081111), Current collector to conduct an electrical current to or from an electrode layer, Gervase Maxwell Christie and Jonathan Andrew Lane, Praxair Technology, Inc.

U.S. 7,449,263 (20081111), Phosphate-free electrolyte for rechargeable lithium ion cells, Mary A. Hendrickson and Edward J. Plichta, The United States of America.

U.S. 7,449,862 (20081111), Method and apparatus for charging a battery using a threshold to cease charging, Thomas E. Voor, Stephen J. Oglesby, and Joseph Patino, Motorola, Inc.

U.S. 7,449,865 (20081111), Battery charger for preventing both overshoot charging currents and overcharged battery voltage during mode transitions and method thereof, Ying-Chung Wang and Pi-Fen Chen, Mediatek InCorp. (TW).

U.S. 7,451,907 (20081118), Roll bonding of bipolar plates, David R. Sigler, Xiaohong Gayden, and Yen-Lung Chen, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 7,452,235 (20081118), Battery connector, Kenneth R. Davis, Edward N Mrotek, and Daniel P. Heil, Johnson Controls Technology Co.

U.S. 7,452,387 (20081118), Process for producing a polymer electrolyte of a vinylidene fluoride copolymer for a nonaqueous battery, Takumi Katsurao, Katsuo Horie, Yukio Ichikawa, and Aisaku Nagai, Kureha Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,452,391 (20081118), Feedforward control processes for variable output hydrogen generators, Bradley P. Russell, John R. Harness, Paul G. Blommel, Daniel R. Sioui, Suheil F. Abdo, Kurt M. Vanden Bussche, and Robert J. Sanger, HyRadix Inc.

U.S. 7,452,441 (20081118), Method for manufacturing membrane electrode assembly, Gang Xie, Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,452,479 (20081118), Chemical base for fuel cell engine heat exchange coolant/antifreeze comprising 1,3-propanediol, Edward Raynes Eaton, Wyndham Henry Boon, and Christopher John Smith, Shell Oil Co.

U.S. 7,452,486 (20081118), Zinc lanthanide sulfonic acid electrolytes, Nicholas Michael Martyak and Martin Nosowitz, Arkema Inc.

U.S. 7,452,487 (20081118), Phosphorus-acid-group-containing (meth) acrylamide, its polymer and use thereof, and their production methods, Yoshio Kanzaki, Uni-Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,452,617 (20081118), Fuel cell dielectric coolant and evaporative cooling process using same, Richard H. Blunk, Mahmoud H. Abd Elhamid, Daniel John Lisi, and Youssef M Mikhail, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 7,452,619 (20081118), Fuel cell system, Khaliq Ahmed, Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd. (AU).

U.S. 7,452,621 (20081118), Polymer membrane for fuel cell and method for preparing the same, Hee-Tak Kim, Hyoung-Juhn Kim, Hae-Kwon Yoon, and Ho-Jin Kweon, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,452,622 (20081118), Metal-supported tubular fuel cell, Partho Sarkar, Hongsang Rho, Lorne Johanson, and Luis Yamarte, Alberta Research Council Inc. (CA).

U.S. 7,452,623 (20081118), Electrochemical cell bipolar plate with sealing feature, David Earl Henderson, Proton Energy Systems, Inc.

U.S. 7,452,624 (20081118), Polymer electrolyte type fuel cell, Kazuhito Hatoh, Junji Niikura, Teruhisa Kanbara, Hideo Ohara, Hiroki Kusakabe, Nobuhiro Hase, Shinsuke Takeguchi, Susumu Kobayashi, and Tatsuto Yamazaki, Panasonic Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,452,625 (20081118), Water management in a direct methanol fuel cell system, Sanjiv Malhotra, Oorja Protonics.

U.S. 7,452,626 (20081118), Fuel cell for portable radio-electronic equipment, Ziya Ramizovich Karichev, Mikhail Romanovich Tarasevich, and Vera Alexandrovna Bogdanovskaya, Zakrytoe aksionernoe Obschestvo ³Independent Power Technologies² (RU).

U.S. 7,452,627 (20081118), Rechargeable battery with jelly roll type electrode assembly, Hyung Bok Lee, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,452,628 (20081118), Housing, Juergen Goetz and Herbert Kirner, Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (DE).

U.S. 7,452,629 (20081118), Nickel metal hydride storage battery, Katsunori Komori, Yoshiaki Ogata, Atsushi Adachi, Katsunori Maekawa, and Noriyuki Fujioka, Panasonic Corp. (JP) and Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,452,630 (20081118), Electrochemical cell, Michael M. Thackeray, Rosalind J. Gummow, and Ernest E. Ferg, Technology Finance Corp. (Proprietary) Ltd. (ZA).

U.S. 7,452,631 (20081118), Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Hideki Kitao, Toyoki Fujihara, Kazuhisa Takeda, Naoya Nakanishi, and Toshiyuki Nohma, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,452,632 (20081118), Negative active material for rechargeable lithium battery, method of preparing same, and rechargeable lithium battery comprising same, Sang-Min Lee, Sung-Soo Kim, Kyou-Yoon Sheem, Sang-Jin Kim, Joon-Sup Kim, and Seong-Mo Oh, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,452,633 (20081118), Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and process for producing positive electrode for use in non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Takashi Suzuki, Toshiyuki Miwa, Hiroto Sagisaka, Kenji Nabekura, Masanori Nakanishi, and Minoru Inagaki, FDK Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,452,634 (20081118), Polymer electrolyte composition for rechargeable lithium battery and rechargeable lithium battery fabricated using same, Yong-Beom Lee and Eui-Hwan Song, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,452,635 (20081118), Rechargeable lithium battery and method of fabricating same, Takitaro Yamaguchi, Ryuichi Shimizu, and Cheol-Soo Jung, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,453,236 (20081118), Battery pack of automatically setting master and slave pack, multi-battery pack system including the same and method for controlling the same, Yasuhito Eguchi, Shoji Tanina, Young Joon Shin, Chang Eon Jin, and Jin Seok Heo, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,453,237 (20081118), Battery pack, Hiroyoshi Yamamoto, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,453,238 (20081118), State of charge tracking system for battery systems based on relaxation voltage, Robert Melichar, Cobasys, LLC.

U.S. 7,453,239 (20081118), Charging apparatus having a switching element for controlling charging power, Hitoshi Suzuki, Makita Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,455,241 (20081125), Fuel cell coolant temperature determination method, Oliver Maier, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 7,455,700 (20081125), Method for creating solid oxide fuel cell anodes and electrodes for other electrochemical devices, Kerry D. Meinhardt, Steven P. Simner, and Vincent L. Sprenkle, Battelle Memorial Institute.

U.S. 7,455,701 (20081125), Cooling plate module with integral sealing element for a fuel cell stack, Alwin Müller, SGL Carbon AG (DE).

U.S. 7,455,702 (20081125), Production method of lithium secondary battery and production device therefor, Kazuyoshi Honda, Yoriko Takai, Sadayuki Okazaki, Syuji Ito, Junichi Inaba, and Hiroshi Higuchi, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,455,703 (20081125), Method for manufacturing polymer electrolyte fuel cell, Makoto Uchida, Yasushi Sugawara, Eiichi Yasumoto, Akihiko Yoshida, Junji Morita, Masao Yamamoto, Shinya Kosako, Osamu Sakai, and Yoshihiro Hori, Panasonic Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,455,721 (20081125), Device and method for humidifying a gas flow, Gerhard Berger, Jens Intorp, Gerhard Konrad, Arnold Lamm, and Sven Schnetzler, Daimler AG (DE).

U.S. 7,455,722 (20081125), Ion irradiated electrolyte membrane, anode, and/or cathode, Rojana Pornprasertsuk, Jeremy Cheng, Yuji Saito, and Friedrich B Prinz, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP) and The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.

U.S. 7,455,817 (20081125), Compact fuel processor for producing a hydrogen rich gas, Curtis L.Krause, James K. Wolfenbarger, and Paul F. Martin, Texaco Inc.

U.S. 7,455,828 (20081125), Process and apparatus for converting hydrogen sulfide into hydrogen and sulfur, Richard R. Selinger and Brian R. Thicke, H2S Technologies, Ltd. (CA).

U.S. 7,455,882 (20081125), Method of applying adhesive to electrochemical cell components, Daniel W. Gibbons, Michael Brovarski, and Leo White, The Gillette Co.

U.S. 7,455,888 (20081125), Method and apparatus for forming catalyst layer on substrate constituting membrane electrode assembly, Satoshi Kadotani, Tatsuya Kawahara, Masashi Murate, and Yoshifumi Kaji, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaishi (JP).

U.S. 7,455,920 (20081125), Fuel cell system, Hiromasa Sakai, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,455,921 (20081125), Fuel cell system having reformer temperature maintenance system and control method thereof, Masaru Okamoto, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,455,922 (20081125), Energy utilization apparatus and energy utilization method, Atsushi Kamachi, Shunsuke Itami, and Hitoshi Okanobori, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,455,923 (20081125), Fuel supply assembly for supplying propane fuel to a fuel cell assembly and fuel cell system employing same, Sai P. Katikaneni, Joseph M. Daly, and Mohammad Farooque, FuelCell Energy, Inc.

U.S. 7,455,924 (20081125), Water vapor transport power generator, Roland A. Wood, Honeywell International Inc.

U.S. 7,455,925 (20081125), Thin-layer fuel cell structure, Gerard Francis McLean, Duhane Lam, and Olen Vanderleeden, Angstrom Power Inc. (CA).

U.S. 7,455,926 (20081125), Airbreathing fuel cell, Takehisa Takagi, Yukio Naruse, Eiji Kato, Shoji Nawa, and Yasuo Ido, Daido Metal Co. Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,455,927 (20081125), Intermetallic compounds for use as catalysts and catalytic systems, Francis J. DiSalvo Jr. and Hector D. Abruna, Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.

U.S. 7,455,928 (20081125), Diffusion media for use in a PEM fuel cell, Mark F. Mathias, Jörg Roth, and Michael K. Budinski, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 7,455,929 (20081125), Air cell with improved leakage resistance, Robert B. Dopp, John C. Bailey, and Richard L. Middaugh, Eveready Battery Co., Inc.

U.S. 7,455,930 (20081125), Battery and method for manufacturing the same, Masumi Katsumoto, Hideki Kasahara, Masaharu Miyahisa, and Yoshihiro Boki, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,455,931 (20081125), Negative electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell and method for manufacture thereof, and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell, Kiyotaka Yasuda, Yoshiki Sakaguchi, Kazuko Taniguchi, and Makoto Dobashi, Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,455,932 (20081125), Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Hiroyuki Fujimoto, Akira Kinoshita, Toyoki Fujihara, Shingo Tode, Yasufumi Takahashi, Ikuro Nakane, and Shin Fujitani, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,455,933 (20081125), Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Nao Shimura, Koshin Tanaka, Masahiro Sekino, Asako Satoh, Shusuke Inada, Akira Yajima, and Masayuki Oguchi, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP).

U.S. 7,455,934 (20081125), Fluorocopolymer material with sulfonic acid functional groups as a solid polyelectrolyte for use in fuel cells, Takayuki Araki, Noritoshi Oka, Yoshito Tanaka, Takayuki Nakamura, and Tetsuo Shimizu, Daikin Industries, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,455,935 (20081125), Ion-conductive electrolyte and cell employing the same, Toshihiro Abe, Shoji Saibara, Hideaki Katayama, Shigeo Aoyama, Keigo Aoi, Makito Yokoe, and Masahiko Okada, Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,455,936 (20081125), Electric cell, Haruchika Ishii, Norio Takami, Tomokazu Morita, and Mitsuo Kasori, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP).

U.S. 7,456,314 (20081125), Partially fluorinated ionic compounds, Zhen-Yu Yang, E I du Pont de Nemours and Co.

U.S. 7,456,517 (20081125), Methods and apparatus for controlled solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC)/turbine hybrid power generation, Anthony Bruce Campbell and Craig Steven Smugeresky, General Electric Co.

U.S. 7,456,521 (20081125), Electronically reconfigurable battery, Douglas M. Weidenheimer, Kevin J. Donegan, and David Wayne Morton, L-3 Communications Titan Corp.

U.S. 7,456,605 (20081125), Battery charger having temperature detection portion for detecting battery temperature, Toshiki Nakasho and Eiji Satsuma, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,456,606 (20081125), Battery label with wireless battery charging circuit, Stephen Peter Legg, International Business Machines Corp.

U.S. 7,456,607 (20081125), Charging apparatus with self cleaning charge and discharge zone, Kenny Che, Yat Shun (Damien) Yu, and Karen Cherk Ting Ho, VTech Telecommunications Ltd. (CN).

U.S. 7,456,609 (20081125), Replaceable rechargeable battery unit for a power tool and charger, Rudolf Fuchs, Robert Bosch GmbH (DE).

U.S. 7,456,610 (20081125), Battery charging apparatus for charging a plurality of batteries, Takahiro Yamashita, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,456,611 (20081125), Multi-current battery charger circuit and method therefor, Charles E. Mullett and Jefferson W. Hall, Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC.

U.S. 7,456,612 (20081125), Method for estimating polarization voltage of secondary cell, method and device for estimating remaining capacity of secondary cell, battery pack system, and vehicle, Yusai Murakami, Panasonic EV Energy Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,456,613 (20081125), Battery remaining capacity calculating method, battery remaining capacity calculating device, and battery remaining capacity calculating program, Shinichi Uesaka and Nozomu Mitsuyoshi, Sony Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,456,614 (20081125), Battery pack, Bunya Sato and Masahiko Hayakawa, Sony Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,457,018 (20081125), Synthesis method for carbon material based on LiMPO4, Michel Armand, Michel Gauthier, Jean-Francois Magnan, and Nathalie Ravet, Hydro-Quebec (CA).

U.S. 7,457,101 (20081125), Electric double layer capacitor, Takeshi Fujino, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,457,785 (20081125), Method and apparatus to predict the remaining service life of an operating system, Frank L. Greitzer, Lars J. Kangas, Kristine M. Terrones, Melody A. Maynard, Ronald A. Pawlowski, Thomas A. Ferryman, James R. Skorpik, and Bary W. Wilson, Battelle Memorial Institute.

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