U.S. BATTERY AND FUEL CELL PATENTS

Official Gazette, Volume 1294 (May 2005)

U.S. 6,886,240 (20050503), Apparatus for producing thin-film electrolyte, Ji-Guang Zhang, Lamartine Meda, and Eleston Maxie, Excellatron Solid State, LLC.

U.S. 6,887,097 (20050503), Terminal for electrically connecting button battery, Mitsuru Nakagawa, Denso Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,887,285 (20050503), Dual stack compact fuel processor for producing hydrogen rich gas, Vijay A Deshpande, Texaco Inc.

U.S. 6,887,286 (20050503), Fuel reformer device, Masayoshi Taki, Seiji Mizuno, Toshiaki Ozaki, Tatsuya Kawahara, Katsuhiko Kinoshita, and Yoshimasa Negishi, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,887,289 (20050503), Cerium oxide sol and abrasive, Isao Ota, Kenji Tanimoto, and Tohru Nishimura, Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,887,361 (20050503), Method for making thin-film ceramic membrane on non-shrinking continuous or porous substrates by electrophoretic deposition, Steven J. Visco, Craig Jacobson, and Lutgard C. DeJonghe, The Regents of the University of California.

U.S. 6,887,381 (20050503), Filter apparatus for removing sulfur-containing compounds from liquid fuels, and methods of using same, Ronald Paul Rohrbach, Russell Johnson, Peter D. Unger, Gordon William Jones, Daniel E. Bause, and Gary B. Zulauf, Honeywell International, Inc.

U.S. 6,887,408 (20050503), Porous poly(aryl ether ketone) membranes, processes for their preparation and use thereof, Youxin Yuan, PoroGen LLC.

U.S. 6,887,436 (20050503), Fast light-off catalytic reformer, Galen Bruce Fisher and John E. Kirwan, Delphi Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 6,887,451 (20050503), Process for preparing carbon nanotubes, Jean Pol Dodelet, Xuellang Sun, and Sylvain Desilets, Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada (CA).

U.S. 6,887,455 (20050503), Catalytic generation of hydrogen, Ian William Carpenter and John William Hayes, Johnson Matthey Public Limited Co. (GB).

U.S. 6,887,511 (20050503), Method for preparing electrode material for lithium battery, Masaki Shima, Hiromasa Yagi, Hisaki Tarui, Hiroaki Ikeda, Masahisa Fujimoto, Shin Fujitani, and Yoichi Domoto, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,887,566 (20050503), Ceria composition and process for preparing same, Cheng-Hung Hung, Joseph D. Smith, George P. Fotou, and Kenneth C. Koehlert, Cabot Corp.

U.S. 6,887,596 (20050503), Portable disposable fuel-battery unit for a fuel cell system, Marzio Leban, Hewlett-Packard Development Co., LP

U.S. 6,887,597 (20050503), Methods and composition for cleaning and passivating fuel cell systems, Bo Yang, Peter M. Woyciesjes, and Filipe J. Marinho, Prestone Products Corp.

U.S. 6,887,598 (20050503), Control system and method for starting a frozen fuel cell, Eric L. Thompson and Robert L. Fuss, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 6,887,599 (20050503), Procedure for starting up a fuel cell system using a fuel purge, Carl A. Reiser, Deliang Yang, and Richard D. Sawyer, UTC Fuel Cells, LLC.

U.S. 6,887,600 (20050503), Regenerative fuel cell with pH control, Patrick John Morrissey and Norman John Ward, Regenesys Technologies Ltd. (GB).

U.S. 6,887,601 (20050503), Regenerative electrochemical cell system and method for use thereof, Lawrence C. Moulthrop Jr., Trent M. Molter, A. John Speranza, Mark A. Lillis, William Smith, Jason Shiepe, and Thomas M Skoczylas, Proton Energy Systems, Inc.

U.S. 6,887,602 (20050503), Rapid response fuel cell system, John C. Fagley, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 6,887,603 (20050503), Raw fuel vaporizing apparatus, method of vaporizing raw fuel, and fuel cell system equipped with raw fuel vaporizing apparatus, Kiyoshi Kasahara, Yuuji Asano, Satoshi Hanai, and Takahiro Tachihara, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,887,604 (20050503), Fuel cell power system, Takanori Suzuki, Izuru Kanoya, and Mitsuya Hosoe, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,887,605 (20050503), System and method for optimizing fuel cell purge cycles, Thomas G. Herron, IdaTech, LLC.

U.S. 6,887,606 (20050503), Fuel cell system method and apparatus employing oxygen sensor, Robert Kenneth Parr and Brian Wells, Ballard Power Systems Inc. (CA).

U.S. 6,887,607 (20050503), Fuel cell system for generating electric energy and heat, Anton Scholten, Petrus Franciscus M. T. van Nisselrooij, Joannes Maria der Kinderen, and Heinz Werner Freese, Plug Power Inc.

U.S. 6,887,608 (20050503), Fuel cell system and related operating method, Kazuhiro Yamada, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,887,609 (20050503), Fuel cell system and method for operating the fuel cell system, Lars Kaufmann, Ballard Power Systems AG (DE).

U.S. 6,887,610 (20050503), Joining of bipolar plates in proton exchange membrane fuel cell stacks, Mahmoud H. Abd Elhamid, Youssef M. Mikhail, Richard H. Blunk, and Daniel J. Lisi, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 6,887,611 (20050503), Flexible fuel cell gas manifold system, Michael Cramer, Jagdish Shah, Richard P. Hayes, and Dana A. Kelley.

U.S. 6,887,612 (20050503), Fuel cell, Stefan Bitterlich, Hartwig Voss, Andreas Fischer, Werner Weppner, and Ingolf Voigt, BASF Aktiengesellschaft (DE).

U.S. 6,887,613 (20050503), Corrosion resistant PEM fuel cell, James H. Lee, Brian K. Brady, and Robert L. Fuss, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 6,887,614 (20050503), End cap assembly for an electrochemical cell, Kevin Duprey, John A. Hession, and Robert A. Yoppolo, The Gillette Co.

U.S. 6,887,615 (20050503), Microvalve for controlling fluid flow, Faiz Feisal Sherman, Vladimir Gartstein, and Daniel Jonathan Quiram, The Procter & Gamble Co.

U.S. 6,887,616 (20050503), Electrode unit and secondary battery using the same, Chang-Seob Kim, Su-Jin Han, Min-Ho Song, Jun-Won Kang, Ju-Hyung Kim, and Soo-Youn Maeng, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 6,887,617 (20050503), Multi-layer electrode structure, and method of manufacturing same, Takaya Sato and Tatsuo Shimizu, Nisshinbo Industries, Inc. (JP) and Itochu Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,887,618 (20050503), Electrochemical cell with flat casing and vent, Alexander Shelekhin, Robert S Ferrin, Matthew Sylvestre, Steven J. Specht, Michael F. Roberts, and Mark Ashbolt, The Gillette Co.

U.S. 6,887,619 (20050503), Cross-linked polysiloxanes, Robert C. West and Zhengcheng Zhang, Quallion LLC.

U.S. 6,887,620 (20050503), Bipolar electrochemical battery of stacked wafer cells, Martin G. Klein, Paula Ralston, and Robert Plivelich, Electro Energy, Inc.

U.S. 6,887,621 (20050503), Electrode capable of storing hydrogen and a method for the production of the same, Gabor Benczur-Uer-Moessy, Detlef Ohms, and Dagmar Nowak, Deutsche Automobilgesellschaft mbH (DE).

U.S. 6,887,622 (20050503), Carbonaceous active material for lithium secondary battery, Jae-yul Ryu, Sang-young Yoon, Kyou-yoon Sheem, Sang-jin Kim, and Wan-uk Choi, Samsung Display Devices Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 6,887,623 (20050503), Electrode for rechargeable lithium battery and rechargeable lithium battery, Hiroyuki Fujimoto, Hiroko Sanda, Takashi Okamoto, Toyoki Fujihara, Masahiro Iyori, Maruo Kamino, and Shigeki Matsuta, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (Osaka, JP).

U.S. 6,887,624 (20050503), Graft oligomeric electrolytes, Hanne Anna Katharina Blau, Pui-Yan Lin, and Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Parada, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co.

U.S. 6,887,692 (20050503), Method and apparatus for hydrogen production from organic wastes and manure, James Robert Paterek, Gas Technology Institute.

U.S. 6,888,337 (20050503), Power system and method, Thomas P. Sawyers, Hewlett-Packard Development Co., LP.

U.S. 6,888,338 (20050503), Portable computer and docking station having charging circuits with remote power sensing capabilities, Vlad Popescu-Stanesti and Constantin Bucur, O2Micro International Limited (KY).

U.S. 6,888,354 (20050503), Apparatus and method for detecting missing or defective battery conditions, Igor Y. Gofman, ASCO Power Technologies LP.

U.S. 6,888,468 (20050503), Apparatus and method for protecting a battery from overdischarge, Kevin I. Bertness, Midtronics, Inc.

U.S. 6,889,147 (20050503), System, computer program product and method for controlling a fuel cell testing device, Ravi Gopal, Didina Cazacu, Yuehui Wei, and Christoph Schuetz, Hydrogenics Corp. (CA).

U.S. 6,890,201 (20050510), ZIF connector having a contact of unique shape, Osamu Hashiguchi, Kazuki Saito, Toshiaki Ariyoshi, and Masahiko Sato, Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Ltd. (JP) and Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,890,456 (20050510), Cathode electroactive material, production method therefor and secondary cell, Takao Noda, Akihiko Shirakawa, Joseph Gaze, Yoshiaki Yamauchi, and Fumiyoshi Ono, Showa Denko KK (JP).

U.S. 6,890,490 (20050510), Hydrogen absorbing tank apparatus, Nobuo Fujita and Hidehito Kubo, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP) and Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho (JP).

U.S. 6,890,510 (20050510), Process for making lithium titanate, Timothy M. Spitler and Jan Prochazka, Altair Nanomaterials Inc.

U.S. 6,890,670 (20050510), Magnetically modified electrodes as well as methods of making and using the same, Johna Leddy and Pengcheng Zou, University of Iowa Research Foundation.

U.S. 6,890,671 (20050510), Fuel mixing control for fuel cell power plants operating on multiple fuels, Robert P. Roche, Paul R. Margiott, and John C. Trocciola, UTC Fuel Cells, LLC.

U.S. 6,890,672 (20050510), Fuel processor feedstock delivery system, Anthony J. Dickman, David J. Edlund, and William A Pledger, IdaTech, LLC.

U.S. 6,890,673 (20050510), Hydrogen producing apparatus and power generating system using it, Kazutoshi Higashiyama, Masahiro Komachiya, Kiyoshi Hiyama, Tomoichi Kamo, Noriyuki Imada, Tetsurou Okano, and Hiroyuki Kaku, Hitachi, Ltd. (JP) and Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,890,674 (20050510), Methods and apparatuses for managing fluids in a fuel cell system, Gerhard Beckmann and Robert S. Hirsch, MTI Microfuel Cells, Inc.

U.S. 6,890,675 (20050510), Method of operating a fuel cell system, and fuel cell system operable accordingly, Petra Koschany, Manhattan Scientifics, Inc.

U.S. 6,890,676 (20050510), Fullerene based proton conductive materials, Berthold Nuber and Bjoern Pietzak, Sony Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,890,677 (20050510), Fuel cell and membrane, Tom Klitsner, Alan P. Sylwester, Gail N. Ryba, Thomas E. Zipperian, Stanley H. Kravitz, and Andrew Hecht, Sandia Corp.

U.S. 6,890,678 (20050510), Separator for fuel cell, Fumio Tanno, Nisshinbo Industries, Inc. (JP).

U.S. 6,890,679 (20050510), Dual-porosity ribbed fuel cell cathode, Richard Johnsen, Chao-Yi Yuh, and Michael Alexander, FuelCell Energy, Inc.

U.S. 6,890,680 (20050510), Modified diffusion layer for use in a fuel cell system, Gerhard Beckmann, Xiaoming Ren, Paul F. Mutolo, Frank W. Kovacs, and Shimshon Gottesfeld, MTI MicroFuel Cells Inc.

U.S. 6,890,681 (20050510), Leak resistant automotive battery, Surendra Kumar Mittal, Debashish Mazumdar, and Partha Dasgupta, Exide Industries Ltd. (IN) and Shin-Kobe Electric Machinery Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,890,682 (20050510), Structure for holding battery of electronic timepiece, Takashi Takahashi, Takayuki Satodate, and Yuichi Shino, Seiko Instruments Inc. (JP).

U.S. 6,890,683 (20050510), Sealed prismatic battery and battery module, Takashi Asahina, Shinji Hamada, and Toyohiko Eto, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP) and Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,890,684 (20050510), Method of binding an electrolyte assembly to form a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Takahisa Ohsaki, Norio Takami, Hiroyuki Hasebe, Motoya Kanda, Asako Sato, Takashi Kuboki, and Shuji Yamada, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP).

U.S. 6,890,685 (20050510), Anode for secondary battery and secondary battery therewith, Hironori Yamamoto, Jiro Iriyama, Tamaki Miura, Mitsuhiro Mori, and Koji Utsugi, NEC Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,890,686 (20050510), Lithium-containing phosphate active materials, Jeremy Barker, Valence Technology, Inc.

U.S. 6,890,687 (20050510), Solid electrolyte battery with porous members between exposed current collectors and method for manufacturing same, Ken Segawa, Yasunobu Iwakoshi, and Kazuhiro Ohba, Sony Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,890,986 (20050510), Substantially pure bulk pyrocarbon and methods of preparation, James Gary Pruett, Hitco Carbon Composites, Inc.

U.S. 6,891,350 (20050510), Jump start and reverse battery protection circuit, Terry A. George and John V. Caputo, Delphi Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 6,891,351 (20050510), Casing structure for charger with upper cover, Chun-Chen Chen, Delta Electronics, Inc. (TW).

U.S. 6,891,352 (20050510), Battery apparatus for controlling plural batteries and control method of plural batteries, Hideki Miyazaki, Akihiko Emori, Akihiko Kudo, and Tsuyoshi Kai, Hitachi, Ltd. (JP) and Shin-Kobe Electric Machinery Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,891,353 (20050510), Safety method, device and system for an energy storage device, Hisashi Tsukamoto, Clay Kishiyama, and David Comarow, Quallion LLC.

U.S. 6,891,354 (20050510), Method for detecting slow and small changes of electrical signals, Andras Fazakas (HU).

U.S. 6,891,355 (20050510), Method for computing an amount of energy taken from a battery, Kent Kernahan, Fyre Storm, Inc.

U.S. 6,891,378 (20050510), Electronic battery tester, Kevin I. Bertness, Clark E. Smith, and Roger S. Knopf, Midtronics, Inc.

U.S. 6,892,147 (20050510), Information handling system including a power management apparatus capable of independently switching between a primary and secondary battery, Vinh X. Bui and Nikolai V. Vyssotski, Dell Products LP.

U.S. 6,892,148 (20050510), Circuit and method for measurement of battery capacity fade, Evgenij Barsoukov, Dan R. Poole, and David L. Freeman, Texas Instruments Inc.

U.S. 6,892,802 (20050517), Crossflow micro heat exchanger, Kevin W. Kelly, Chad R. Harris, and Mircea S. Despa, Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College.

U.S. 6,893,103 (20050517), Ink jet recording apparatus and manufacturing method for functional liquid applied substrate, Nobuko Okada, Yutaka Takano, and Hiroshi Kiguchi, Seiko Epson Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,893,273 (20050517), Terminal structure of cable with shield layer, Noboru Sato and Michiaki Shimizu, Hitachi Cable, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,893,481 (20050517), Method for manufacturing Ni-Al alloy powders for fuel cells using aluminum chloride, Suk Woo Nam, Anatoli Maganiouk, Seong-Ahn Hong, In-Hwan Oh, Tae Hoon Lim, Heung Yong Ha, Sung Pil Yoon, Jonghee Han, and Eun Ae Cho, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KR).

U.S. 6,893,619 (20050517), Plate-frame heat exchange reactor with serial cross-flow geometry, Brian David James, Franklin Delano Lomax, and George Newell Baum, Ford Global Technologies, LLC.

U.S. 6,893,621 (20050517), Lithium-containing silicon oxide powder and making method, Hirofumi Fukuoka, Satoru Miyawaki, Mikio Aramata, Susumu Ueno, Kazuma Momii, and Takeshi Fukuda, Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,893,708 (20050517), Fuel cell flowfield design for improved water management, John Jianyue Shen, Raymond Belanger, and Zuomin Dong, Palcan Fuel Cell Co. Ltd. (CA).

U.S. 6,893,753 (20050517), Rechargeable battery equipped with battery protection circuit, Yoshinori Iwaizono, Shoji Konishi, Shigeru Kajiwara, Takeshi Ishimaru, Masaru Kawabe, and Katsuyuki Shirasawa, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,893,754 (20050517), Fuel cell system with device for water recovery and method of operating such a system, David W. Agar, Andreas Docter, Martin Gosewinkel, and Marc Sommer, DaimlerChrysler AG (DE).

U.S. 6,893,755 (20050517), Method and system for controlling the operation of a hydrogen generator and a fuel cell, David Leboe, Cellex Power Products, Inc. (CA).

U.S. 6,893,756 (20050517), Lambda sensing with a fuel cell stack, Bruce J.Clingerman and Jeffrey A. Rock, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 6,893,757 (20050517), Fuel cell apparatus and method of controlling fuel cell apparatus, Kenji Kato, Kabushiki Kaisha Equos Research (JP).

U.S. 6,893,758 (20050517), Fuel cell system and method of stopping the system, Atsushi Miyazawa and Toshihiro Takekawa, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,893,759 (20050517), Polymer electrolyte fuel cell stack, Atsushi Ooma, Yasuji Ogami, Hiroshi Chizawa, and Michio Hori, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP).

U.S. 6,893,760 (20050517), Solid oxide fuel cell, Itaru Shibata, Tatsuo Sugiyama, Masaharu Hatano, Mitsugu Yamanaka, Makoto Uchiyama, Tatsuhiro Fukuzawa, Naoki Hara, Keiko Kushibiki, and Fuminori Satou, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,893,761 (20050517), Process for producing a membrane electrode assembly and the membrane electrode assembly produced thereby, Joachim Kohler, Anita Kramer, Karl-Anton Starz, Knut Fehl, and Armin Bayer, Umicore AG & Co. KG (DE).

U.S. 6,893,762 (20050517), Metal-supported tubular micro-fuel cell, Partho Sarkar, Lorne Johanson, and Hongsang Rho, Alberta Research Council, Inc. (CA).

U.S. 6,893,763 (20050517), Composite polymer electrolyte membrane for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells, Qinbai Fan and Siem Le, Gas Technology Institute.

U.S. 6,893,764 (20050517), Solid polyelectrolyte, assembly of membrane and electrodes, and fuel cell, Tohru Koyama, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Kenji Yamaga, Tomoichi Kamo, and Kazutoshi Higashiyama, Hitachi, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,893,765 (20050517), Polymer electrolyte fuel cell, Kazufumi Nishida, Junji Niikura, Hisaaki Gyoten, Kazuhito Hatoh, Hideo Ohara, Teruhisa Kanbara, and Satoru Fujii, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,893,766 (20050517), Methodology for supply of reactant fluids to and purging of product and inert fluids from cells of fuel cell stack, Trung Van Nguyen, TVN Systems, Inc.

U.S. 6,893,767 (20050517), Methods for producing fuel cell units and fuel cell stacks, Harumi Hatano, Nobuaki Kimura, Masajiro Inoue, and Hiroyuki Tanaka, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,893,768 (20050517), Fuel distribution system for a fuel cell stack, Sean M. Kelly and Kevin R. Keegan, Delphi Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 6,893,769 (20050517), Fuel cell assemblies and methods of making the same, Gregory S. Herman, Peter Mardilovich, David Champion, and James O’Neil, Hewlett-Packard Development Co., LP.

U.S. 6,893,770 (20050517), Stamped bipolar plate for PEM fuel cell stack, Jeffrey A. Rock, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 6,893,771 (20050517), Battery assembly, Naoto Arai, Shinji Hamada, Munehisa Ikoma, Masayoshi Iwase, and Tomokazu Yamauchi, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP) and Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,893,772 (20050517), Current collector for lithium electrode, William G. Howard, Medtronic, Inc.

U.S. 6,893,773 (20050517), Flat square battery, Tetsuya Hayashi, Makoto Nakanishi, and Kunihiko Bessho, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,893,774 (20050517), Fluoroalkylphosphate salts, and process for the preparation of these substances, Michael Schmidt, Andreas Kuhner, Nikolai Ignatyev, and Peter Sartori, Merck Patent GmbH (DE).

U.S. 6,893,775 (20050517), Battery having active material containing neutral carbon radical compound, Yukiko Morioka, Masaharu Satoh, Shigeyuki Iwasa, Yutaka Bannai, and Kentaro Nakahara, NEC Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,893,776 (20050517), Positive active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprising same, Yoshinori Naruoka, Junichi Toriyama, and Masanao Terasaki, Japan Storage Battery Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,893,777 (20050517), Current collector having non-symmetric grid pattern converging at a common focal point, Joseph M. Probst, Wilson Greatbatch Ltd.

U.S. 6,893,778 (20050517), Lithium polymer cell, Akiko Fujino, Shinji Mino, and Hiroshi Yoshizawa, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,894,134 (20050517), a-Olefins and olefin polymers and processes therefor, Maurice S. Brookhart, Lynda Kaye Johnson, Christopher Moore Killian, Elizabeth Forrester McCord, Stephan James McLain, and Samuel David Arthur, E. I. duPont de Nemours and Company and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

U.S. 6,894,143 (20050517), Polyether polymer, process for producing the same, composition for solid polymer electrolyte, and use thereof, Hideyuki Nishio, Hidenori Onishi, and Yoshinori Fujii, Zeon Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,894,145 (20050517), Methods to purify polymers, Steven Shuyong Xiao, Chunong Qiu, and Cindy Xing Qiu, Organic Vision Inc. (CA).

U.S. 6,894,456 (20050517), Implantable medical power module and system for producing the same, Hisashi Tsukamoto and Pang Hoo Tan, Quallion LLC.

U.S. 6,894,458 (20050517), Charge control device and battery pack employing it, Masaaki Fujii, Rohm Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,894,459 (20050517), Charging method for extending battery life in the presence of high temperature, Jason N. Howard and Hossein Maleki, Motorola, Inc.

U.S. 6,895,644 (20050524), Battery grids, John O. Wirtz, Wirtz Manufacturing Co., Inc.

U.S. 6,895,660 (20050524), Manufacturing method of over-current protection devices, Edward Fu-Hua Chu, David Shau-Chew Wang, and Chih-Ming Yu, Polytronics Technology Corp. (TW).

U.S. 6,896,031 (20050524), Apparatus and method of forming parts, Robert W. Ratte, Water Gremlin Co.

U.S. 6,896,529 (20050524), Connector equipped with terminal protection device, Lu Jing, Molex Inc.

U.S. 6,896,544 (20050524), Lighted battery cables, Gregory G. Kuelbs and Max A. Probasco, World Factory, Inc.

U.S. 6,896,706 (20050524), Carbonaceous materials coated with a metal or metal oxide, a preparation method thereof, and a composite electrode and lithium secondary battery comprising the same, Joong Kee Lee, Byung Won Cho, Won Il Cho, Joo Man Woo, Hyung Sun Kim, Un Sek Kim, and Dalkeun Park, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KR).

U.S. 6,896,709 (20050524), Miniature fuel reformer and system using metal thin film, Jaesung Han, Cheolwoo Park, Keunseob Choi, and Ilsu Kim, Sk Corp. (KR).

U.S. 6,896,777 (20050524), Porous hydrophilic membranes, Vincenzo Arcella and Alessandro Ghielmi, Solvay Solexis SpA (IT).

U.S. 6,896,783 (20050524), Method for producing material libraries by means of electrochemical deposition, Stephan A. Schunk, Dirk Demuth, and Hartmut Hibst, hte Aktiengesellschaft (DE).

U.S. 6,896,792 (20050524), Method and device for improved catalytic activity in the purification of fluids, Jean St-Pierre, David P. Wilkinson, and Stephen A. Campbell, Ballard Power Systems Inc. (CA).

U.S. 6,896,807 (20050524), Capacitor electrolyte recovery, W. Novis Smith and Terry Adams, Toxco Inc.

U.S. 6,896,982 (20050524), Conditioning method for fuel cells, Nengyou Jia and Benno Giesecke, Ballard Power Systems Inc. (CA).

U.S. 6,896,983 (20050524), Membrane for fuel cells, Dieter Meissner and Klaus Kohrs, Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH (DE).

U.S. 6,896,984 (20050524), Methods for reducing mass and volume of a fuel processor, Steven D. Burch and William H. Pettit, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 6,896,985 (20050524), Fuel cell system, Munehisa Horiguchi, Taizo Yamamoto, Masataka Ueno, Kenji Kato, and Hideto Miyazaki, Kabushiki Kaisha Equos Research (JP).

U.S. 6,896,986 (20050524), Multi-stage rapid vaporization apparatus and method, Kevin Stukey and William H. Pettit, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 6,896,987 (20050524), Fuel cell container cooling system, Ronald Scott Bunker and Chellappa Balan, General Electric Co.

U.S. 6,896,988 (20050524), Enhanced high efficiency fuel cell/turbine power plant, Zhao-Hui Wang and Hossein Ghezel-Ayagh, FuelCell Energy, Inc.

U.S. 6,896,989 (20050524), Solid electrolyte fuel cell and related manufacturing method, Naoki Hara, Mitsugu Yamanaka, Fuminori Satou, Masaharu Hatano, Keiko Kushibiki, Tatsuhiro Fukuzawa, Itaru Shibata, and Makoto Uchiyama, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,896,990 (20050524), Device for connecting at least two fuel cell batteries and correspondingly connected plant, Arno Mattejat and Karl Strasser, Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (DE).

U.S. 6,896,991 (20050524), Solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell and method for producing electrode thereof, Hikaru Okamoto, Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,896,992 (20050524), Hybrid thin film/thick film solid oxide fuel cell and method of manufacturing the same, Daniel A. Kearl, Hewlett-Packard Development Co., LP.

U.S. 6,896,993 (20050524), Electrochemical device comprising a pair of electrodes and an electrolyte, Yoshihiro Hozumi, Katsuji Ikeda, Masami Kashihara, Tomonori Aoki, and Makato Inoue, Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,896,994 (20050524), Battery separator containing carbodiimide polymer, Masakatsu Urairi, Keisuke Kii, Yutaka Kishii, Yutaka Yamamura, Masao Abe, and Sadahito Misumi, Nitto Denko Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,896,995 (20050524), Battery cover, Satoshi Saito, Yazaki Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,896,996 (20050524), Perfluoropolyether additives for electrochemical applications, Giuseppe Marchionni, Alberto Zompatori, and Alba Chittofrati, Austmont SpA (IT).

U.S. 6,897,260 (20050524), Longitudinal shrink films, Denis Leon Vynckier, Plastic Suppliers, Inc.

U.S. 6,897,272 (20050524), a-Olefins and olefin polymers and processes therefor, Maurice S. Brookhart, Lynda Kaye Johnson, Samuel David Arthur, and Stephan James McLain, EI Du Pont de Nemours and Co.

U.S. 6,897,513 (20050524), Perovskite-type material forming methods, capacitor dielectric forming methods, and capacitor constructions, Jerome M. Eldridge, Micron Technology, Inc.

U.S. 6,897,634 (20050524), Rechargeable battery having charging indicating means, Martin H. Ramsden, Motorola, Inc.

U.S. 6,897,635 (20050524), Method for predicting remaining charge of portable electronics battery, Hidekiyo Ozawa and Shigeo Tanaka, Fujitsu Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,897,960 (20050524), Optical hydrogen detector, Frank DiMeo Jr. and Mackenzie E. King.

U.S. 6,898,063 (20050524), Over-current protection device, Edward Fu-Hua Chu, David Shau-Chew Wang, and Yun-Ching Ma, Polytronics Technology Corp. (TW).

U.S. 6,898,067 (20050524), Electric double-layer capacitor, Kazuya Hiratsuka, Manabu Suhara, Takeshi Kawasato, Naruaki Tomita, Naoki Yoshida, and Yoshiaki Higuchi, Asahi Glass Co. Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,898,964 (20050531), Failure determination method for an air supply system in a fuel cell apparatus, Kenichiro Ueda, Junji Uehara, Shinji Yoshikawa, and Yoshikazu Murakami, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,899,062 (20050531), Cooling system for a fuel cell module as part of an on-board power supply, Rolf Bruck, Joachim Grosse, Manfred Poppinger, and Meike Reizig, Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (DE) and EMITEC Gesellschaft fuer Emissionstechnologie mbH (DE).

U.S. 6,899,290 (20050531), Fuel swirler plate for a fuel injector, Daniel L Varble, Harry R. Mieney, Richard L. Cooper, David Rogers, and Kevin J. Allen, Delphi Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 6,899,741 (20050531), Fuel evaporator, Masahito Nakamura, Naoyuki Abe, Kiyoshi Kasahara, and Takahiro Tachihara, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,899,85Shimada alloy regenerating apparatus, Toshiaki Shimada, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,899,859 (20050531), Method for preparing a H2-rich gas and a CO2-rich gas at high pressure, Ola Olsvik, Den Norske Stats Oljeselskap AS (NO).

U.S. 6,899,860 (20050531), Process for producing lithium manganate and lithium battery using the lithium manganate, Tokuo Suita and Kenzi Kataoka, Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,899,861 (20050531), Heat exchanger mechanization to transfer reformate energy to steam and air, Steven D. Burch, Matthew J. Beutel, and Kevin Stukey, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 6,899,862 (20050531), Method for controlled generation of hydrogen by dissociation of water, Edward W. Baldwin and Russell P. White Jr., Hydrogen Energy America LLC.

U.S. 6,899,918 (20050531), Method for manufacturing electrode for lithium secondary battery, Hiromasa Yagi and Hisaki Tarui, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,899,919 (20050531), Method of making a high surface area electrode, Jack Chen.

U.S. 6,899,922 (20050531), Method for coating a limited length substrate using rotating support and at least one pick-and-place roll, William K. Leonard, David W. Leonard, and Bruce D. Shalles, 3M Innovative Properties Co.

U.S. 6,899,950 (20050531), High strength polyethylene fiber, Godo Sakamoto, Tooru Kitagawa, Syoji Oda, and Yasuo Ohta, Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,899,952 (20050531), Polysulfone-based resin solution composition and laminate using the same, Kiyoshi Shimizu, Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,899,968 (20050531), Fuel cell power supply device, Yoshinobu Hasuka, Hibiki Saeki, Chihiro Wake, and Hiroyuki Abe, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,899,969 (20050531), Fuel cell system and freezing prevention method thereof, Yoshihito Kanno, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,899,970 (20050531), Electrochemical cell electrodes comprising coal-based carbon foam, Darren K. Rogers and Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski, Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd.

U.S. 6,899,971 (20050531), Gas diffusion layer arrangement for a fuel cell, Akira Hamada and Kunihiro Nakato, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,899,972 (20050531), Secondary battery with thermal protector, Sung-Jae Cho, Samsung SDI Co. (KR).

U.S. 6,899,973 (20050531), Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary cells, Naoya Nakanishi, Kouichi Satoh, Toshiyuki Nohma, and Ikuo Yonezu, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,899,974 (20050531), Secondary battery of proton conductive polymer, Hiroyuki Kamisuki, Toshihiko Nishiyama, Gaku Harada, Shinya Yoshida, Masato Kurosaki, Yuuji Nakagawa, Tomoki Nobuta, and Masaya Mitani, NEC Tokin Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,899,975 (20050531), Battery pack, Kyouichi Watanabe and Hideaki Horie, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,899,976 (20050531), Feed through assembly for a formable flat battery, Lary R. Larson and Walter C. Sunderland, Medtronic Inc.

U.S. 6,899,978 (20050531), Electrochemical cell, Johan Christiaan Fitter (ZA).

U.S. 6,900,615 (20050531), Battery discharge apparatus with light activated battery discharge circuit, Robert Kamenoff, Mathews Associates, Inc.

U.S. 6,900,616 (20050531), Current interrupt device for rechargeable cells, Philip H. Burrus IV, Guoping Deng, and Edmond Louie, Motorola, Inc.

U.S. 6,901,293 (20050531), System and method for monitoring power source longevity of an implantable medical device, Charles R. Rogers, Donald R. Merritt, Craig L. Schmidt, and Mukul Jain, Medtronic, Inc.

U.S. 6,901,302 (20050531), Hydrogen station loading control unit, vehicle onboard terminal unit, hydrogen station, method for controlling hydrogen station loading, Yozo Kami, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).