U.S. BATTERY AND FUEL CELL PATENTS

Compiled by Eddie T. Seo

U.S. 6,786,226 (20040907), Battery fluid supply system, Randall L. Crook, Daniel T. Aron, Michael A. Vassily, James R. Kerlin, and Gerald C. Skelton, Club Car, Inc.

U.S. 6,786,245 (20040907), Self-contained mobile fueling station, Donald Paul Eichelberger, David John Farese, Joseph Perry Cohen, and Richard Layton Colwell, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

U.S. 6,786,254 (20040907), Retractable air supply connector system for a fuel cell assembly, James H. Kralick, Delphi Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 6,786,381 (20040907), Anti-oxidant battery contacts for fastener-driving tool, Yury Shkolnikov, Illinois Tool Works Inc.

U.S. 6,786,741 (20040907), Elongated elastomeric connector and method, Carl M. Marsiglio and Robert L. Fuss, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 6,786,937 (20040907), Sealing method and apparatus for a fuel cell stack, James H. Kralick, Plug Power Inc.

U.S. 6,786,942 (20040907), Fuel reforming system and stopping method thereof, Hiroyuki Ichikawa, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,786,950 (20040907), High purity fine metal powders and methods to produce such powder, Tapesh Yadav, Roger Dirstine, and Karl Pfaffenbach, NanoProducts Corp.

U.S. 6,787,103 (20040907), Hydrogen storage alloy having laves phase and production method therefor, Yasuhiro Aoki and Takaaki Miyaki, Japan Steel Works Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,787,115 (20040907), Passive element for fuel processor start up transient temperature control, Steven G. Goebel, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 6,787,118 (20040907), Selective removal of carbon monoxide, Shane E. Roark and James H. White, Eltron Research.

U.S. 6,787,183 (20040907), Method of and apparatus for producing electrode of fuel cell, Kazuhiko Iwasaki, Noboru Okada, and Ichiro Tanaka, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,787,231 (20040907), Tin(IV) oxide nanopowder and methods for preparation and use thereof, Arkadiy A. Furman, Aleksander A Andriiko, and Sergiy M. Maliovanyi, Electroplated Metal Solutions, Inc.

U.S. 6,787,232 (20040907), Intercalation compounds and electrodes for batteries, Yet-Ming Chiang, Donald R. Sadoway, Young-Il Jang, and Biyan Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

U.S. 6,787,235 (20040907), Consolidated amorphous carbon materials, their manufacture and use, Carl C. Nesbitt and Xiaowei Sun, Reticle, Inc.

U.S. 6,787,254 (20040907), Method and apparatus for humidification and temperature control of incoming fuel cell process gas, Joe Cargnelli and Ravi B. Gopal, Hydrogenics Corp. (CA).

U.S. 6,787,255 (20040907), Fuel cell power generating system and operation method, Yoshiteru Misumi, Kurita Water Industries, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,787,256 (20040907), Humidification apparatus for fuel cells, Nobuki Matsui, Shuji Ikegami, Yasunori Okamoto, and Kazuo Yonemoto, Daikin Industries Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,787,257 (20040907), Method and apparatus for operating an electrochemical fuel cell, Gregory James and Rajeev Vohra, Ballard Power Systems Inc. (CA).

U.S. 6,787,258 (20040907), Hydrogen based energy storage apparatus and method, Vladimir Prerad.

U.S. 6,787,260 (20040907), Electrolyte-particulate fuel cell anode, Stuart I Smedley, Metallic Power, Inc.

U.S. 6,787,261 (20040907), Solid oxide fuel cell, Kenji Ukai and Yasunobu Mizutani, Toho Gas Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,787,262 (20040907), Fuel cell stack having intermediate plate for restricting movement of bolt members for fastening stacked body, Toshiya Wakahoi and Noriaki Osao, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,787,263 (20040907), Method and apparatus for establishing a negative pressure inside an enclosure that houses a fuel cell system, Michael M. Walsh, Robert S. Traver, Russel H. Marvin, and George M. Allen, Plug Power Inc.

U.S. 6,787,264 (20040907), Method for manufacturing fuel cells, and articles made therewith, Kenneth Walter Browall and Chang Wei, General Electric Co.

U.S. 6,787,265 (20040907), Positive and negative interactive electrode formulation for a zinc-containing cell having an alkaline electrolyte, Jeffrey Phillips, PowerGenix Systems, Inc.

U.S. 6,787,266 (20040907), Battery plate and battery, Tatsuya Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Murai, Yorihito Ohana, Hiroshi Matsuno, and Hideya Asano, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,787,267 (20040907), Electrolyte for electrochemical device, Shoichi Tsujioka, Hironari Takase, Mikihiro Takahashi, Hiromi Sugimoto, and Makoto Koide, Central Glass Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,787,268 (20040907), Electrolyte, Tsuneaki Koike, Hiroyuki Yumoto, and Hisashi Tsukamoto, Quallion LLC.

U.S. 6,787,269 (20040907), Nonaqueous electrolyte and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Masahiro Sekino, Asako Satoh, Masashi Fujiwara, and Hiroyuki Hasebe, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP).

U.S. 6,787,500 (20040907), Catalyst particles and method of manufacturing the same, Miho Ito, Jun Hasegawa, Koichi Niihara, and Tadachika Nakayama, Denso Corp. (JP), Koichi Niihara (JP), and Tadachika Nakayama (JP).

U.S. 6,787,935 (20040907), Battery sensor device, Andreas Heim, Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft (DE).

U.S. 6,788,025 (20040907), Battery charger with booster pack, Kevin I. Bertness and J. David Vonderhaar, Midtronics, Inc.

U.S. 6,788,026 (20040907), Battery charger, including an amplifier for audio signals, for portable audio devices, Toshihiko Muramatsu, Yamaha Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,788,027 (20040907), System for controlling the voltage of an energy storage device to prevent premature aging of the device, Manfred Malik, Continental ISAD Electronic Systems GmbH & Co., oHG (DE).

U.S. 6,788,028 (20040907), Charging a battery using constant voltage and pulse, Seung-Won Lee, SK Teletech Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 6,788,068 (20040907), Method and device for measuring pure resistance of on-vehicle battery by periodically measuring a discharge current and terminal voltage while a rush current flows into a constant load, Youichi Arai, Yazaki Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,788,069 (20040907), Method for calculating the parameters of the power battery of an electric motor vehicle, Cecile Vacher, Peugeot Citroen Automobiles SA (FR).

U.S. 6,788,524 (20040907), Device and method for uniformly distributing electrode particles, Tina Urso, Dominick Frustaci, and Michael Guidi, Wilson Greatbatch Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 6,789,026 (20040907), Circuit and method for monitoring battery state of charge, Evgenij Barsoukov, Dan R. Poole, and David L. Freeman, Texas Instruments Inc.

U.S. 6,789,205 (20040907), System for determining intrinsic safety status of the combination of a communication device and a battery, Joseph Patino and Sandy L. Florence, Motorola, Inc.

U.S. 6,789,421 (20040914), Density-based fuel indicator system for fuel cells, Makarand P. Gore and L. Chris Mann, Hewlett-Packard Development Co., LP.

U.S. 6,789,547 (20040914), Carbon technology, John B. Paine III, Philip Morris Inc.

U.S. 6,789,757 (20040914), Hydrogen storage powder and process for preparing the same, Kwo Young, Michael A. Fetcenko, and Stanford R. Ovshinsky, Texaco Ovonic Battery Co., Inc.

U.S. 6,790,243 (20040914), Lithium-ion cell and method for activation thereof, Hariharan Vaidyanathan, Comsat Corp.

U.S. 6,790,247 (20040914), Compact fuel processor, Robert Childress, John R Farrell, Wendell B. Leimbach, and James W. Marshall, Texaco Inc.

U.S. 6,790,338 (20040914), Electrolytic process for preparing metal sulfonates, George P. Kinstle, Alex T. Magdics, and Thomas E. Nappier, OM Group, Inc.

U.S. 6,790,382 (20040914), Templated compositions of inorganic liquids and glasses, James D. Martin and Todd A. Thornton, North Carolina State University.

U.S. 6,790,416 (20040914), Hydrogen generation system, L. Chris Mann, Timothy J. Corbett, Qin Liu, and Ravi Prasad, Hewlett-Packard Development Co., LP.

U.S. 6,790,425 (20040914), Macroscopic ordered assembly of carbon nanotubes, Richard E. Smalley, Daniel T. Colbert, Ken A. Smith, Deron A. Walters, Michael J. Casavant, Chad B Huffman, Boris I. Yakobson, Robert H. Hague, Rajesh Kumar Saini, and Wan-Ting Chiang, Wiliam Marsh Rice University.

U.S. 6,790,429 (20040914), Methods of synthesizing an oxidant and applications thereof, Lee Edward Ciampi, Ab Initio LC.

U.S. 6,790,430 (20040914), Hydrogen production from carbonaceous material, Klaus S. Lackner, Hans J. Ziock, and Douglas P. Harrison, The Regents of the University of California.

U.S. 6,790,432 (20040914), Suppression of methanation activity of platinum group metal water-gas shift catalysts, Wolfgang F. Ruettinger and Robert J. Farrauto, Engelhard Corp.

U.S. 6,790,474 (20040914), Fuel electrode of solid oxide fuel cell and process for the production of the same, Masakazu Hishinuma and Yoshio Matsuzaki, Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,790,480 (20040914), Coating apparatus, Kazuhiro Oki, Yoshinobu Katagiri, and Masahiro Morikawa, Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,790,519 (20040914), Moisture-induced poly(ethylene oxide) gel, method of making same and articles using same, Eric D. Johnson, Gregory J. Wideman, and James Hongxue Wang, Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.

U.S. 6,790,545 (20040914), Battery holder with battery releasing mechanism, Jerry Wu, Hon Hai Precision Ind Co., Ltd. (TW).

U.S. 6,790,546 (20040914), Method of heating and humidifying at least one of a fuel stream and an oxidant stream for a fuel cell, Xuesong Chen, David Frank, Pierre Rivard, and Joe Cargnelli, Hydrogenics Corp. (CA).

U.S. 6,790,547 (20040914), Process for reducing coke formation in hydrocarbon processing by application of radio frequency electromagnetic radiation utility, Gunther H. Dieckmann and Michael E. Moir, Chevron USA Inc.

U.S. 6,790,548 (20040914), Staged venting of fuel cell system during rapid shutdown, Donald H. Keskula, Tien M. Doan, and Bruce J. Clingerman, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 6,790,549 (20040914), Fuel cell system with humidity determination, Yasuhiro Nonobe, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,790,550 (20040914), Water control for a fuel cell system, Tomonori Imamura, Toshiyuki Kawai, Haruhiko Kato, and Kunio Okamoto, Denso Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,790,551 (20040914), Modified redox couple fuel cell cathodes and fuel cells employing same, Srinivasan Venkatesan, Boyko Aladjov, Subhash K. Dhar, and Stanford R. Ovshinsky, Texaco Ovonic Fuel Cell UC.

U.S. 6,790,552 (20040914), Polymer electrolyte fuel cell, Susumu Kobayashi, Masato Hosaka, Kazuhito Hatoh, Hikaru Murakami, Mikio Takezawa, and Takayuki Onishi, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,790,553 (20040914), Method for producing bridged polymer membrane and fuel cell, Tetsu Yamamoto, Celanese Ventures GmbH (DE).

U.S. 6,790,554 (20040914), Fuel cells and fuel cell plates, Barrett May and David R. Hodgson, Imperial Chemical Industries PLC (GB).

U.S. 6,790,555 (20040914), Electrochemical cell having a controlled electrode surface, Eric S. Kolb, Denis G. Fauteux, and Keiichi Seki, Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,790,556 (20040914), Electrochemical energy storage device having improved enclosure arrangement, Arieh Meitav, Joel Lang, Niles Fleischer, David Lifschitz, Eugene Pecherer, Eli Rosh Chodesh, Joost Manassen, and Bharat Rawal, ECR.

U.S. 6,790,557 (20040914), Li-ion and/or Li-ion polymer battery with shielded leads, Xuekun Xing and Jeffrey M Smith, NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,790,558 (20040914), Electrode alloy powder and method of producing the same, Yukihiro Okada, Miho Kayama, and Yoichiro Tsuji, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP) and Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,790,559 (20040914), Alkaline cells having positive nickel hydroxide electrodes with fluoride salt additives, Jeffrey Phillips, PowerGenix Systems, Inc.

U.S. 6,790,560 (20040914), Positive electrode material for lithium secondary battery, Masataka Wakihara and Yuji Tanjo, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP) and Masataka Wakihara (JP).

U.S. 6,790,561 (20040914), Process for fabricating continuously coated electrodes on a porous current collector and cell designs incorporating said electrodes, Hong Gan, Esther S. Takeuchi, and Robert S. Rubino, Wilson Greatbatch Ltd.

U.S. 6,790,562 (20040914), Separator for alkaline secondary battery, method for preparing the same alkaline secondary battery, Yasuyuki Harada, Tadayoshi Tanaka, Katsuhiko Shinyama, Toshiyuki Nohma, and Ikuo Yonezu, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,790,563 (20040914), Electric cell, Haruchika Ishii, Norio Takami, Tomokazu Morita, and Mitsuo Kasori, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP).

U.S. 6,790,931 (20040914), Method for producing sulfonated aromatic polymers and use of the process products for producing membranes, Wei Cui, Thomas Soczka-Guth, and Georg Frank, Celanese Ventures GmbH (DE).

U.S. 6,790,990 (20040914), Method for preparing fluorosulfonyl imide monomer, Hanne Anna Katherina Blau, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co.

U.S. 6,791,295 (20040914), Method and apparatus for charging a high voltage battery of an automotive vehicle having a high voltage battery and a low voltage battery, David Jeffeory Berels, Ford Global Technologies, LLC.

U.S. 6,791,296 (20040914), Cell phone charging circuit of USB interface, Hui-Min Chu and Tao-Hung Liu, Golden Bridge Electech Inc. (TW).

U.S. 6,791,297 (20040914), Battery charger, William

E. Ott and David L. Saunders, Honeywell International Inc.

U.S. 6,791,298 (20040914), Monolithic battery charging device, Krishna Shenai and Siamak Abedinpour, Shakti Systems, Inc.

U.S. 6,791,299 (20040914), Method for activating secondary battery, Yusai Murakami, Tadao Kimura, and Seiji Bito, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP) and Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,791,300 (20040914), Battery charger and charging method, Danh T. Trinh, Paul S. White, and Daniele C. Brotto, Black & Decker Inc.

U.S. 6,791,737 (20040914), Electrochemical device, Jean-Christophe Giron, Saint-Gobain Glass France (FR).

U.S. 6,791,809 (20040914), Charge/discharge protection circuit, Axel Pannwitz, Dialog Semiconductor GmbH (DE).

U.S. 6,791,820 (20040914), Electrochemical capacitor having double electrical layer, Igor N. Varakin, Alexey B. Stepanov, and Victor V. Samitin, Universal Resources AG (CH).

U.S. 6,792,320 (20040914), Remote change of state for laboratory equipment, Craig C. Andrews, Fideris, Inc.

U.S. 6,792,978 (20040921), Fuel cell hose with barrier properties, Carol Lynn Ainsworth, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

U.S. 6,792,981 (20040921), Method and apparatus for filling a pressure vessel having application to vehicle fueling, Michael S. Manning, James Smolarek, Robert B. Bollinger, and Ahmed Abdelwahab, Praxair Technology, Inc.

U.S. 6,793,544 (20040921), Corrosion resistant fuel cell terminal plates, Brian K. Brady and Bhaskar Sompalli, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 6,793,691 (20040921), Method for assembling battery element group and battery manufactured with the same method, Huanong Zhang, Xiongtao Power Supply Technology Co., Ltd. (CN).

U.S. 6,793,692 (20040921), Electrical component and method for manufacturing the same, Takaya Sato and Tatsuo Shimizu, Nisshinbo Industries, Inc. (JP) and Itochu Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,793,693 (20040921), Method for utilizing a fuel by using exothermic pre-reactions in the form of a cold flame, Heinrich Koehne, Klaus Lucka, Ingo Rudolphi, Heinz-Peter Gitzinger, and Lutz Hartmann, Heinrich Kohne (DE).

U.S. 6,793,698 (20040921), Fuel processor reactor with integrated pre-reforming zone, Robert J. Sanger, Kurt M. Vanden Bussche, and Daniel R. Sioui, UOP LLC.

U.S. 6,793,799 (20040921), Method of separating and recovering rare FP in spent nuclear fuels and cooperation system for nuclear power generation and fuel cell power generation utilizing the same, Masaki Ozawa, Yuichi Sano, and Yoshihiko Shinoda, Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JP).

U.S. 6,793,831 (20040921), Microlamination method for making devices, Brian Kevin Paul, Richard Budd Peterson, and Tyson Jedd Terhaar, State of Oregon.

U.S. 6,793,898 (20040921), Compact plasma-based fuel reformer, Christopher Stewart Brown, Frederick Jacobus Kirstein, Paul Francis Martin, and Harold Troy Wong, Texaco Inc.

U.S. 6,793,899 (20040921), Plasmatron-catalyst system, Leslie Bromberg, Daniel R. Cohn, Alexander Rabinovich, and Nikolai Alexeev, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

U.S. 6,793,910 (20040921), Process to accomplish autothermal or steam reforming via a reciprocating compression device, K. David Lyons, Robert James, David A. Berry, and Todd Gardner.

U.S. 6,794,036 (20040921), Active material of positive electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and method for preparing the same and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery using the same, Kazutoshi Matsumoto, Tomio Tujimura, and Kazuyuki Takeishi, Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,794,067 (20040921), Fuel cell control and measurement apparatus and method, using dielectric constant measurements, William P. Acker and Michael S. Adler, MTI MicroFuel Cells, Inc.

U.S. 6,794,068 (20040921), Fuel cell stack design and method of operation, Pinkhas A. Rapaport, Jeffrey A. Rock, Andrew D. Bosco, John P. Salvador, Hubert A. Gasteiger, and Lesley A. Paine, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 6,794,069 (20040921), Fuel cell support and electrical interconnector, Sadeg M Faris, Tsepin Tsai, Wenbin Yao, Lin-Feng Li, George Tzong-Chyi Tzeng, Michael Rabin, and William Morris, Reveo, Inc.

U.S. 6,794,070 (20040921), Fuel cell apparatus with compressor means for reducing fuel leakage danger and improving efficiency, Wilhelm Amrhein and Gesine Arends, Robert Bosch GmbH (DE).

U.S. 6,794,071 (20040921), Apparatus and method for rapidly increasing power output from a direct oxidation fuel cell, Gerhard Beckmann and William W. Dailey, MTI MicroFuel Cells Inc.

U.S. 6,794,072 (20040921), Fuel cell system, Masaru Okamoto, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,794,073 (20040921), Direct antifreeze cooled fuel cell, Richard D. Breault, David A. Condit, Albert P. Grasso, and Michael E Gorman, International Fuel Cells, LLC.

U.S. 6,794,074 (20040921), Air manager for metal-air cells, Viet H. Vu, Paul G Cheeseman, Marc L. Syvertsen, John A. Thompson, Christopher S. Pedicini, and John D. Witzigreuter, Rayovac Corp.

U.S. 6,794,075 (20040921), Fuel cells, Brian Charles Hilton Steele, Alan Atkinson, John Anthony Kilner, Nigel Peter Brandon, and Robert Arthur Rudkin, Ceres Power Ltd (GB).

U.S. 6,794,076 (20040921), Fuel cell with a device for storing water, Ilona Busenbender, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 6,794,077 (20040921), Passive water management fuel cell, Jung S. Yi, Deliang Yang, Richard D. Breault, Albert P. Grasso, and Glenn W. Scheffler, UTC Fuel Cells, LLC.

U.S. 6,794,078 (20040921), Fuel cell, fuel cell separator, and method of manufacture thereof, Noriji Tashiro, Atsushi Fujita, Tomonori Seki, and Harufumi Hasuda, Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,794,079 (20040921), Fuel cell, Toshiyuki Inagaki, Mikio Wada, Yuichi Yagami, and Tsuyoshi Takahashi, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,794,080 (20040921), Electrochemical energy conversion, Mohammed E. Sennoun, Gerald E. Voecks, Gerald W. Fly, and Gary M. Robb, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 6,794,081 (20040921), Selectable capacity fixed footprint lead-acid battery racking system with horizontal plates, Drew Heimer, C&D Charter Holdings, Inc.

U.S. 6,794,082 (20040921), Alkaline battery, Katsumi Mori, Takumi Ohhara, and Kenji Sato, Sony Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,794,083 (20040921), Fluoroalkylphosphate salt electrolytes, Michael Schmidt, Frank Ott, Michael Jungnitz, Nikolai Ignatyev, and Andreas Kuehner, Merck Patent Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung (DE).

U.S. 6,794,084 (20040921), Alkali metal hydrogen phosphates as precursors for phosphate-containing electrochemical active materials, George W. Adamson, Jeremy Barker, Titus Faulkner, M. Yazid Saidi, and Jeffrey Swoyer, Valence Technology, Inc.

U.S. 6,794,085 (20040921), Metal oxide containing multiple dopants and method of preparing same, Yuan Gao, Marina Yakovleva, and Walter B. Ebner, FMC Corp.

U.S. 6,794,086 (20040921), Thermally protective salt material for thermal spraying of electrode materials, Jinxiang Dai, Ronald A. Guidotti, Tongsan D. Xiao, and David E. Reisner, Sandia Corp. and US Nanocorp, Inc.

U.S. 6,794,087 (20040921), Lithium battery having evenly coated negative electrode and method of manufacture thereof, Yun-Suk Choi, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 6,794,088 (20040921), Method for preparing lithium ion polymer battery, Kwon-Sun Roh, Jae-Myoung Lee, and Jon-Ha Lee, SKC Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 6,794,089 (20040921), Nonaqueous electrolyte and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Masahiro Sekino, Masashi Fujiwara, Asako Satoh, Jun Momma, Masayuki Oguchi, Makoto Kato, and Hiroyuki Hasebe, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP).

U.S. 6,794,470 (20040921), Process for producing a tetrafluoroethylene polymer, Shigeki Kobayashi, Jun Hoshikawa, Kazuo Kato, Hiroki Kamiya, and Hiroyuki Hirai, Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,794,480 (20040921), Monomer containing electron-withdrawing group and electron-donative group, and copolymer and proton-conductive membrane comprising same, Kohei Goto, Masayuki Takahashi, Yoshitaka Yamakawa, and Makoto Higami, JSR Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,794,584 (20040921), Conductor strip formed with slit, cutout or grooves, Naoya Tanaka, Rohm Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,794,844 (20040921), Method and system for fuel cell control, Clark Hochgraf and Prabhakar Singh, Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 6,794,845 (20040921), Charging device for charging a plurality of devices, Scott H. Richards, Anthony J. Cecchin, Charles F. Jackson, and Joseph E. Phillips, Motorola, Inc.

U.S. 6,794,846 (20040921), Power source unit, Kimitoshi Tsuji, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,794,847 (20040921), Charging system for vehicle, Masaharu Hosoda, Masaaki Kaizuka, Kazunari Takahashi, and Shigeru Aoki, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,794,851 (20040921), Charging circuit and battery charger, Kouji Murakami and Hidetoshi Hamai, Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,794,852 (20040921), System and method of battery capacity reporting, Phat H. Tran, Research In Motion Ltd. (CA).

U.S. 6,794,980 (20040921), Over-current protection apparatus and method for making the same, Edward Fu-Hua Chu, David Shau-Chew Wang, and Yun-Ching Ma, Polytronics Technology Corp. (TW).

U.S. 6,795,293 (20040921), Polymer-modified electrode for energy storage devices and electrochemical supercapacitor based on said polymer-modified electrode, Alexander Timonov, Sergey Logvinov, Nikolay Shkolnik, and Sam Kogan, EnGen Group, Inc.

U.S. 6,795,297 (20040921), Electrode sheet, method for manufacturing thereof, polarizable electrode and electric double-layer capacitor, Manabu Iwaida, Shigeki Oyama, Kenichi Murakami, Kouki Ozaki, and Masanori Tsutsui, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP) and Daido Metal Co. Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,795,782 (20040921), Battery test module, Kevin I. Bertness, Jamey L. Butteris, and Michael J. Fritsch, Midtronics, Inc.

U.S. 6,796,332 (20040928), Fluid balance control system for use in a fuel processor, Kevin H. Nguyen, W. Spencer Wheat, and Vesna R. Mirkovic, Texaco Inc.

U.S. 6,796,484 (20040928), Nickel-plated brazing product having improved corrosion performance, Adrianus Jacobus Wittebrood, Jacques Hubert Olga Joseph, and Joop Nicolaas Mooij, Corus Aluminum Walzprodukte GmbH (DE).

U.S. 6,796,841 (20040928), Alligator clip with a fuse holder, Wen Tsung Cheng (TW) and Wen Ho Cheng (TW).

U.S. 6,797,017 (20040928), Preparation of e-phase silver vanadium oxide from A-phaseSVO starting material, Randolph A. Leising and Esther S. Takeuchi, Wilson Greatbatch Ltd.

U.S. 6,797,018 (20040928), Solid-state energy storage module employing integrated interconnect board, Jean Rouillard, Christophe Comte, Dominik Daigle, Ronald A. Hagen, Orlin B. Knudson, Andre Morin, Michel Ranger, Guy Ross, Roger Rouillard, Philippe St-Germain, Anthony Sudano, and Thomas A. Turgeon, 3M Innovative Properties Co and Hydro-Quebec Corp. (CA).

U.S. 6,797,019 (20040928), Electrochemical cell having an electrode of silver vanadium oxide coated to a current collector, Esther S. Takeuchi, Randolph A. Leising, and Marcus Palazzo, Wilson Greatbatch Ltd.

U.S. 6,797,022 (20040928), Autothermic reforming reactor, Andreas Docter, Uli Roeltgen, and Norbert Wiesheu, DaimlerChrysler AG (DE).

U.S. 6,797,027 (20040928), Filter assemblies and systems for intake air for fuel cells, Eivind Stenersen, William Michael Nyman, and Richard Thomas Canepa, Donaldson Co., Inc.

U.S. 6,797,081 (20040928), Centrifugal casting method, centrifugal casting apparatus, and cast alloy produced by same, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Masahide Utsunomiya, Uremu Hosono, and Yoichi Hirose, Showa Denko KK (JP).

U.S. 6,797,091 (20040928), Method for embossing expanded graphite sheet material under reduced pressure, Donald A. Lines, Nicholas A. Fletcher, Eric G. Pow, Michael Sexsmith, Bill Gray, and Horst Thumm, Ballard Power Systems Inc. (CA).

U.S. 6,797,151 (20040928), CO sensor and method of measuring CO concentration, Norihiko Nadanami, Tomonori Kondo, Ryuji Inoue, Noboru Ishida, and Takafumi Oshima, NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,797,244 (20040928), Compact light weight autothermal reformer assembly, Roger R. Lesieur, DTC Fuel Cells LLC.

U.S. 6,797,316 (20040928), Process for producing a coating film and process for producing a solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell, Shinji Kinoshita, Hiroshi Shimoda, and Atsushi Mukoyama, Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,797,403 (20040928), Continuous extruded lead alloy strip for battery electrodes, Douglas G. Clark, Kenneth Henning Runo Gustavsson, Derek William Russell, and Albert M. Vincze, Teck Cominco Metals Ltd. (CA).

U.S. 6,797,418 (20040928), Fuel processor for fuel cell, Tadashi Nomura, Akifumi Otaka, Nobuyuki Kawasaki, and Yasunori Kotani, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,797,421 (20040928), Method and apparatus for preventing water in fuel cell power plants from freezing during storage, Richard J. Assarabowski, William T. Unkert, Leonard A. Bach, Albert P. Grasso, and Benoit Charles Olsommer, UTC Fuel Cells, LLC.

U.S. 6,797,422 (20040928), Air-breathing direct methanol fuel cell with metal foam current collectors, Qinbai Fan, Renato Platon, Siem Le, and Renata Kot, Gas Technology Institute.

U.S. 6,797,423 (20040928), High-temperature fuel cell, Robert Fleck and Wolfram Kaiser, Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (DE).

U.S. 6,797,424 (20040928), Separator for fuel cell, production process thereof, and solid polymer fuel cell using the separator, Atsushi Ooma, Yasuji Ogami, Michio Hori, Masanori Kobayashi, and You Ootani, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP).

U.S. 6,797,425 (20040928), Fuel cell stack compressive loading system, Scott Blanchet, FuelCell Energy, Inc.

U.S. 6,797,426 (20040928), Fuel cell and fuel cell device, Taizo Yamamoto, Masafumi Kobayashi, Kenji Yamana, and Hidemi Kato, Kabushiki Kaisha Equos Research (JP).

U.S. 6,797,427 (20040928), System for enhanced lithium-ion battery performance at low temperatures, Hossein Maleki, Anaba Anani, and Ganesh Venugopal, Motorola, Inc.

U.S. 6,797,428 (20040928), Lithium anodes for electrochemical cells, Terje A. Skotheim, Christopher J. Sheehan, Yuriy V Mikhaylik, and John Affinito, Moltech Corp.

U.S. 6,797,429 (20040928), Non-aqueous electrolytic secondary cell, Shigeo Komatsu, Japan Storage Battery Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,797,430 (20040928), Non-aqueous electrolytic battery and manufacturing method, Kazuhito Hatta, Tsuyonobu Hatazawa, and Tomitaro Hara, Sony Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,797,431 (20040928), Method for the preparation of cathode active material and method for the preparation of non-aqueous electrolyte, Mamoru Hosoya, Kimio Takahashi, and Yuzuru Fukushima, Sony Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,797,432 (20040928), Method for producing sintered cadmium negative electrode, Akihiko Konsha, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,797,433 (20040928), Negative electrode formulation for a low toxicity zinc electrode having additives with redox potentials negative to zinc potential, Jeffrey Phillips, PowerGenix Systems, Inc.

U.S. 6,797,434 (20040928), Negative active material for rechargeable lithium battery, electrode for rechargeable lithium battery, rechargeable lithium battery and method of preparing negative active material for rechargeable lithium secondary battery, Keiko Matsubara, Toshiaki Tsuno, and Sang-Young Yoon, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 6,797,435 (20040928), Positive active material for rechargeable lithium batteries and method of preparing the same, Ho-Jin Kweon and Jun-Won Suh, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 6,797,436 (20040928), Solidifying material for cell electrolyte solution, and cell comprising the solidifying material, Minoru Takizawa, Yoshifumi Sugito, Naomi Oguma, Seiji Doi, Sachio Yoshikawa, and Michiei Nakamura, Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg. Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,797,437 (20040928), Electrolyte system and energy storage device using same, Hisashi Tsukamoto and Tsuneaki Koike, Quallion LLC.

U.S. 6,797,662 (20040928), Electrically conductive ceramics, Donald Jaffrey, Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd. (AU).

U.S. 6,797,667 (20040928), Process for preparing an anode catalyst for fuel cells and the anode catalyst prepared therewith, Karsten Ruth, Peter Biberbach, Karl-Anton Starz, and Ralph McIntosh, Umicore AG & Co. KG (DE).

U.S. 6,798,170 (20040928), Electrical power source apparatuses, circuits, electrochemical device charging methods, and methods of charging a plurality of electrochemical devices, John Cummings, Valence Technology, Inc.

U.S. 6,798,171 (20040928), Battery state monitoring circuit and battery device, Atsushi Sakurai, Seiko Instruments Inc. (JP).

U.S. 6,798,172 (20040928), Method for preserving capacity of a battery of an electronic device, Gwang Su Kim, LG Electronics Inc. (KR).

U.S. 6,798,173 (20040928), Automatic charging device via a universal serial bus and method of operating the same, Ying-Hao Hsu, Benq Corp. (TW).

U.S. 6,798,174 (20040928), Method of terminating charge for a battery, James Cornett, Charles Byrne, and David Demuro, Motorola, Inc.

U.S. 6,798,221 (20040928), Method, apparatus and article to test fuel cells, Zhaoyu Wang, Ross W Johnston Bailey, Graham E. Hill, and Hong The Nguyen, Ballard Power Systems Inc. (CA).

U.S. 6,798,643 (20040928), Metal collector foil for electric double layer capacitor, method of producing the metal collector foil, and electric double layer capacitor using the metal collector foil, Shigeki Oyama, Manabu Iwaida, Kenichi Murakami, Hiroto Kobayashi, Koichi Yoshida, Hiroyuki Saito, Kouki Ozaki, and Masanori Tsutsui, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP), Nippon Chemi-Con Corp. (JP), and Daido Metal Co. Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,798,658 (20040928), High voltage electrical packaging box structure, Harumi Takedomi, Kazuhiko Aitaka, and Osamu Hasegawa, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,799,089 (20040928), Design of new materials whose use produces a chemical bond with a descriptor of said bond, Herve Toulhoat, Institut Francais du Petrole (FR).