U.S. BATTERY AND FUEL CELL PATENTS

Official Gazette, Volume 1298 (September 2005)

U.S. 6,938,449 (20050906), Hydraulic forming process, hydraulic forming device and metal separator for a fuel cell formed by hydraulic forming process, Kenichi Kusunoki, Masanao Shiomi, and Naoki Yoshioka, Araco Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,938,553 (20050906), Battery box for railway vehicle, Hisataka Tamaki and Naohiro Hiraoka, Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Japan).

U.S. 6,938,775 (20050906), Button cell battery pack with air access channel, Robert C. Gaffney, Rodney S. McKenzie, Marc L. Syvertsen, Jeffrey W. Schmoeger, Michael J. Johnstone, Robert G. Reidl, Jeffrey A. Poirier, Robert G. LaMasney, and Ross J. Mack, Rovcal, Inc.

U.S. 6,939,167 (20050906), Battery connecting member and method of mounting it to a battery, Shuji Kosuge, Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,939,383 (20050906), Method for making electrode, Brian C. Eastin, Katherine A. Graham, Tony B. Hollobaugh, James A. McDonell, Jeffrey J. Missling, and John R. Wheeler, 3M Innovative Properties Company.

U.S. 6,939,449 (20050906), Water electrolyzer and system, Holger H. Streckert and Linden P. Blue, General Atomics.

U.S. 6,939,459 (20050906), Fuel for use in fuel cell system, Kenichirou Saitou, Iwao Anzai, Osamu Sadakane, and Michiro Matsubara, Nippon Oil Corporation (JP).

U.S. 6,939,493 (20050906), Method for the production of composite materials, Ricardo Blach Vizoso, Vladimir-Nikolaevich Fateev, Porembikiy-Vladimir Igorevich, Bogatchev-Eugeniy Akimovich, and Tsypkin-Mikhail Alexandrovich, Poligono Industrial Nicomedes Garcia-Naves BvC (ES).

U.S. 6,939,526 (20050906), Graphite particles and process for production thereof, Kenji Fukuda, Tadanori Tsunawaki, Tatsuo Umeno, Kohei Murayama, and Youichiro Hara, Mitsui Mining Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,939,528 (20050906), Manganese dioxide for alkaline cells, Stuart M. Davis, William L. Bowden, Peter R. Moses, and Thomas C. Richards, The Gillette Company.

U.S. 6,939,529 (20050906), Self-regulating hydrogen generator, Michael Strizki and Shailesh Shah, Millennium Cell, Inc.

U.S. 6,939,581 (20050906), Process for impregnating supports, Aldo Sanguineti and Andrea Perego, Solvay Solexis SpA (IT).

U.S. 6,939,628 (20050906), Method and apparatus for increasing fuel cell efficiency, power output, or reduced-temperature operation, Gregory Herman, Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP.

U.S. 6,939,629 (20050906), Humidifying system for a fuel cell, Toshikatsu Katagiri, Hiroshi Shimanuki, and Motohiro Suzuki, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,939,630 (20050906), Composite electrode for

reducing oxygen, Tadashi Sotomura and Takeo Ohsaka, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,939,631 (20050906), Fuel cell system and method of operation, Volker Formanski, Martin Woehr, and Thomas Herbig, General Motors Corporation.

U.S. 6,939,632 (20050906), Thermally efficient micromachined device, Leonel R. Arana, Aleksander J. Franz, Klavs F. Jensen, Samuel B. Schaevitz, and Martin A. Schmidt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

U.S. 6,939,633 (20050906), Fuel cell shutdown and startup using a cathode recycle loop, Steven G. Goebel, General Motors Corporation.

U.S. 6,939,634 (20050906), Fuel cell system having two reformer units for catalytic decomposition, Norbet Breuer and Oliver Marquardt, Robert Bosch GmbH (DE).

U.S. 6,939,635 (20050906), Method and apparatus for controlling a combined heat and power fuel cell system, Arne W. Ballantine, Ryan Hallum, John W. Parks, and Dustan L. Skidmore, Plug Power Inc.

U.S. 6,939,636 (20050906), Air cooled fuel cell module, William A. Fuglevand, Shibli Hanna I. Bayyuk, Greg A. Lloyd, Shalena V. Wilkerson, and Matthew M. Wright, Relion, Inc.

U.S. 6,939,637 (20050906), Method for solid oxide fuel cell anode preparation, Raymond J. Gorte, John M. Vohs, and Radu Craciun, The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania.

U.S. 6,939,638 (20050906), Fuel cell separator, process for production thereof, and polymer electrolyte fuel cell, Kazuo Saito, Atsushi Hagiwara, and Atsushi Miyazawa, Nisshinbo Industries, Inc. (JP).

U.S. 6,939,639 (20050906), Fuel cell separator, Toshiyuki Inagaki, Tsuyoshi Takahashi, Tsutomu Ochi, Katsuhiro Kajio, Kouetsu Hibino, Yasuyuki Asai, Yixin Zeng, Toshiyuki Suzuki, Yuichi Yagami, Mikio Wada, and Haruhisa Niimi, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,939,640 (20050906), Anode electrocatalysts for coated substrates used in fuel cells, Kostantinos Kourtakis, E I du Pont de Nemours and Company.

U.S. 6,939,641 (20050906), Detached portable battery with universal clip, Myra Kincaid, Charles Friedli, Due Q. Huynh, and Kevin Maggert, Motorola, Inc.

U.S. 6,939,642 (20050906), Prismatic battery module and method for manufacturing the same, Takashi Asahina, Shinji Hamada, Toyohiko Eto, and Shinsuke Fukuda, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP) and Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,939,643 (20050906), Lithium-material comprising an intermetallic lithium/transition metal pnictide phase for lithium batteries, Laure Monconduit-Jegou, Frederic Gillot, and Marie-Liesse Doublet, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (FR) and Universite de Montpellier II (FR).

U.S. 6,939,644 (20050906), Lithium secondary cell, Takayuki Aoshima and Iwao Soga, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (JP).

U.S. 6,939,645 (20050906), Separator for valve regulated lead acid battery and valve regulated lead acid battery, Shoji Sugiyama, Atsushi Asada, and Shuhei Nagakubo, Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,939,646 (20050906), Polymer electrolyte and process for producing the same, Hiroshi Shinoda, Katsuhiko Iwasaki, and Atsushi Terahara, Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited (JP).

U.S. 6,939,647 (20050906), Non-aqueous electrolyte solutions and non-aqueous electrolyte cells comprising the same, T. Richard Jow, Shengshui Zhang, Kang Xu, and Michael S. Ding, The United States of America.

U.S. 6,940,254 (20050906), Trade-in battery system, Masayuki Nagamine, Masayoshi Kanno, and Shunichi Fujishima, Sony Corporation (JP).

U.S. 6,940,255 (20050906), Battery charge indicator such as for an implantable medical device, Robert Loch, Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.

U.S. 6,940,256 (20050906), Battery state monitoring circuit and battery device, Atsushi Sakurai, Seiko Instruments Inc. (JP).

U.S. 6,940,257 (20050906), Battery charger, Francisco Planells Almerich (ES).

U.S. 6,940,628 (20050906), Electrochemical device, Jean-Christophe Giron, Saint-Gobain Vitrage (FR).

U.S. 6,940,706 (20050906), Electrode material and capacitor, Yusaku Sakata, Akinori Muto, Norimasa Yamada, Azhar Uddin, Masaru Takei, Kenji Kojima, Satoshi Ibaraki, and Chisato Marumo, Kanebo Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,941,234 (20050906), Query based electronic battery tester, Kevin I. Bertness, Stephen J. McShane, and Wilhelmus H. J. Koster, Midtronics, Inc.

U.S. 6,942,105 (20050913), In-line filtration for a particle-based electrochemical power system, Stuart I. Smedley, Jerry Dennis Wilson, and Martin de Tezanos Pinto, Metallic Power, Inc.

U.S. 6,942,718 (20050913), Orientation insensitive combined liquid reservoir and gas/liquid separator, Jeffrey A. Schmidt, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.

U.S. 6,942,765 (20050913), Submicron and nano size particle encapsulation by electrochemical process and apparatus, Thomas P. Griego and John W. Eichman III, Surfect Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 6,942,781 (20050913), Method for electroplating a strip of foam, Marc Kuhn, Louis Masotti, Damien Michel, and Liyan Yang, Efoam SA (LU).

U.S. 6,942,937 (20050913), Air distribution method and controller for a fuel cell system, Donald H. Keskula, Bruce J. Clingerman, Swaminathan Gopalswamy, and Shankar Akella, General Motors Corporation.

U.S. 6,942,938 (20050913), System and method for cooling a fuel cell arrangement, Monika Derflinger, Isabel Haas, and Hans-Frieder Walz, Ballard Power Systems AG (DE).

U.S. 6,942,939 (20050913), System and method for controlling methanol concentration in a fuel cell, Chenggang Xie, Motorola, Inc.

U.S. 6,942,940 (20050913), System for generating electricity, Tan-Ping Chen, Gas Research Institute.

U.S. 6,942,941 (20050913), Adhesive bonds for metallic bipolar plates, Richard H. Blunk, Mahmoud H. Abd Elhamid, Daniel J. Lisi, Youssef M. Mikhail, and Michael K. Budinski, General Motors Corporation.

U.S. 6,942,942 (20050913), Solid-oxide fuel cell assembly having a thermal enclosure within a structural enclosure, Karl J. Haltiner Jr., Michael T. Faville, and Sean M. Kelly, Delphi Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 6,942,943 (20050913), Catalyst and/or electrolyte loaded plate and method of making same, Chao M. Huang, Chao-Yi Yuh, and Mohammad Farooque, FuelCell Energy, Inc.

U.S. 6,942,944 (20050913), Battery system thermal management, Said Al-Hallaj and Jan Robert Selman, Illinois Institute of Technology.

U.S. 6,942,945 (20050913), Adapter system for a battery, Glenn W. Andersen, Lisa M. Franklin, Peter Gratschmayr, Mark S. Inkmann, and Robert Spanier, Johnson Controls Technology Company.

U.S. 6,942,946 (20050913), Positive electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and method of producing the same, Masao Fukunaga, Takao Kuromiya, Kazunori Kubota, Kohei Suzuki, and Tsumoru Ohata, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,942,947 (20050913), Hydrogen storage alloy, process for producing hydrogen storage alloy, hydrogen storage alloy electrode, process for producing hydrogen storage alloy electrode, and battery, Kenji Nakamura, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,942,948 (20050913), Nonaqueous electrolyte solution and secondary battery employing the same, Masahiro Takehara, Takashi Fujii, Minoru Kotato, Daisuke Noda, Shinichi Kinoshita, Makoto Ue, and Hitoshi Suzuki, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (JP).

U.S. 6,942,949 (20050913), Rechargeable lithium electrochemical cell, Jurgen Otto Besenhard, Kai Christian Moller, Gisela Fauler, and Martin Winter, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 6,943,263 (20050913), Method for producing bis(trifluoromethyl)imido salts, Udo Heider, Michael Schmidt, Peter Sartori, Nikolai Ignatyev, Andrij Kucherina, and Ludmila Zinovyeva, Merck Patent GmbH (DE).

U.S. 6,943,275 (20050913), Process of preparing a disubstituted 9-alkylidenefluorene or a derivative thereof, Martin Heeney, Steven Tierney, Mark Giles, and Clare Bailey, Merck Patent GmbH (DE).

U.S. 6,943,525 (20050913), Power source apparatus for an electric automobile, Shoichi Toya, Kuniho Tanaka, Toru Mizuta, Hiroshi Tatsumi, and Masato Takami, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,943,526 (20050913), Rechargeable battery, Yury Leonidovich Spirin and Vladimir Stepanovich Dubinin, IntelliKraft Limited (GB).

U.S. 6,943,528 (20050913), Method and arrangement for determination of the state of charge of a battery, Eberhard Schoch, Robert Bosch GmbH (DE).

U.S. 6,943,529 (20050913), Battery charging system, Michael Cheiky and Te-Chien F. Yang, Zinc Matrix Power, Inc.

U.S. 6,943,530 (20050913), Battery charging system, Michael Cheiky and Te-Chien F. Yang, Zinc Matrix Power, Inc.

U.S. 6,944,010 (20050913), Charge storage device, George Lange Paul, Rory Albert James Pynenburg, Peter John Mahon, and Sarkis Keshishian, Energy Storage Systems PTY Ltd. (AU).

U.S. 6,945,266 (20050920), Manifold for fuel cell system, Martin de Tezanos Pinto, Metallic Power, Inc.

U.S. 6,945,691 (20050920), Method and apparatus for inferring a temperature, David J. Trapasso and Kenneth J. Dauer, Delphi Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 6,946,007 (20050920), Electrochemical double layer capacitor having carbon powder electrodes, Priya Bendale, Manuel R. Malay, John M. Dispennette, Chenniah Nanjundiah, and Earl Chaney, Sony Corporation (JP) and Sony Electronics Inc.

U.S. 6,946,020 (20050920), Hydrogen purification module, Jae-Sung Han, Il-Su Kim, and Keun-Seob Choi, SK Corporation (KR).

U.S. 6,946,067 (20050920), Method of forming an electrical connection between an electrochemical cell and a meter, Alastair McIndoc Hodges and Garry Chambers, LifeScan, Inc.

U.S. 6,946,104 (20050920), Chemical hydride hydrogen generation system and an energy system incorporating the same, Ali Rusta-Sallehy, David Frank, and Robert Rady-Pentek, Hydrogenics Corporation (CA).

U.S. 6,946,110 (20050920), Carbon fibers, production process therefor and electrode for batteries, Kunio Nishimura and Morinobu Endo, Showa Denko KK (JP).

U.S. 6,946,112 (20050920), Method for reversible storage of hydrogen and materials for hydrogen storage, Ping Chen, Zhitao Xiong, and Jizhong Luo, National University of Singapore (SG).

U.S. 6,946,113 (20050920), Method for processing fluid flows in a micro component reformer system, James Seaba and Lea-Der Chen, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,946,176 (20050920), Multilayer thermoplastic structure for gas tank, Franck Jousse, Philippe Mazabraud, and Beatrice Icard, Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique (FR).

U.S. 6,946,209 (20050920), Desulfurization for fuel cell systems using sulfur separating membranes, Gordon Israelson, Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation.

U.S. 6,946,210 (20050920), Electrochemical polymer electrolyte membrane cell stacks and manufacturing methods thereof, Paul Osenar, Richard M. Formato, Attila E. Herczeg, and Mohammad Enayetullah, Protonex Technology Corporation.

U.S. 6,946,211 (20050920), Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells, Niels Janniksen Bjerrum, Qingfeng Li, and Hans Aage Hjuler, Danish Power Systems APS.

U.S. 6,946,212 (20050920), Electrochemical fuel cell stack with improved reactant manifolding and sealing, Joel A. Ronne, Boguslaw M. Wozniczka, Clarence Y. Chow, and Henry H. Voss, Ballard Power Systems Inc. (CA).

U.S. 6,946,213 (20050920), Perovskite electrodes and method of making the same, Matthew M. Seabaugh and Scott L. Swartz, NexTech Materials, Ltd.

U.S. 6,946,214 (20050920), Manufacturing method of fuel cell electrode and fuel cell using thereof, Gang Xie and Harumi Hashiguchi, Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,946,215 (20050920), Molton hydride fuel cell, Prodyot Roy, Samir Armando Salamah, and Douglas Noss Rodgers, General Electric Company.

U.S. 6,946,216 (20050920), Method for enhancing battery performance and apparatus using the same, Chang Mu-Tsai, Tseng Tien-Chun, Li Hsiao-Feng, and Chih-Feng Yeh, Acer Incorporated (TW) and Wistron Corporation (TW).

U.S. 6,946,217 (20050920), Battery lock, Karl Singer and Chad Seedorf, D & K Group, Inc.

U.S. 6,946,218 (20050920), Battery cell having edge support and method of making the same, Dell Albert Crouch Jr. and Gregory K. Maclean, Enerdel, Inc.

U.S. 6,946,219 (20050920), Sealed prismatic battery connected via openings with conductive connection plates, Shinji Hamada, Toyohiko Eto, and Takashi Asahina, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. and Toyoda Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,946,220 (20050920), Electrochemical cell having a multiplate electrode assembly housed in an irregularly shaped casing, Joseph M. Probst and Scott P. Hall, Wilson Greatbatch Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 6,946,221 (20050920), Square battery container, method of manufacturing the container, and square battery using the container, Tomomichi Ueda, Susumu Kitaoka, Katsuhiko Mori, Shoji Yamashita, Kazuyuki Higashi, Tadahiro Tokumoto, and Masatoshi Hano, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,946,222 (20050920), Sintered nickel electrode for alkaline storage battery, method of forming the same, and alkaline storage battery, Yuki Morikawa, Takeshi Ogasawara, Mitsunori Tokuda, Mutsumi Yano, and Shin Fujitani, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,946,223 (20050920), Negative electrode for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery, Yasuyuki Kusumoto, Atsushi Fukui, and Hiroshi Nakamura, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,946,224 (20050920), Battery mounting and testing method, Scott T. Trosper, Micron Technology, Inc.

U.S. 6,946,362 (20050920), Method and apparatus for forming high surface area material films and membranes, Makarand P. Gore and John Stephen Dunfield, Hewlett-Packard Development Company.

U.S. 6,947,855 (20050920), Adaptive algorithm to control and characterize super-capacitor performance, Mark W. Verbrugge and Damon R. Frisch, General Motors Corporation.

U.S. 6,948,078 (20050920), Battery having a plurality of temperature sensors for outputting different control information to a connected computer system based upon the temperature relationships of the sensors, Shigefumi Odaohhara, International Business Machines Corporation.

U.S. 6,948,559 (20050927), Three-fluid evaporative heat exchanger, Michael J. Reinke, Jeroen Valensa, and Mark G. Voss, Modine Manufacturing Company.

U.S. 6,948,982 (20050927), Battery fuse-containing box, Eiji Higuchi and Yoshihisa Shimada, Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,949,179 (20050927), Methods for forming magnetically modified electrodes and articles produced thereby, Johna Leddy and Shelley D. Minteer, University of Iowa Research Foundation.

U.S. 6,949,229 (20050927), Device for evaporating a liquid, Andreas Ebert, Oskar Lamla, Martin Schussler, and Tomas Stefanovski, Ballard Power Systems AG (DE).

U.S. 6,949,233 (20050927), Method of preparing positive active material for rechargeable lithium batteries, Ho-Jin Kweon, Jun-Won Suh, and Geun-Bae Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 6,949,237 (20050927), Method for growing single-wall carbon nanotubes utilizing seed molecules, Richard E. Smalley, Daniel T. Colbert, Hongjie Dai, Jie Liu, Andrew G. Rinzler, Jason H. Hafner, Kenneth A. Smith, Ting Guo, Pavel Nikolaev, and Andreas Thess, William Marsh Rice University.

U.S. 6,949,285 (20050927), Membrane suitable for electrochemical cells, Tekeshi Tobinaga, Klemens Mathauer, Bernd Bronstert, and Helmut Mohwald, BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen (DE).

U.S. 6,949,303 (20050927), Electromechanical conversion system, Lonnie G. Johnson and Zhenhua Mao, Johnson Electro Mechanical Systems, LLC.

U.S. 6,949,304 (20050927), Fullerene-based electrolyte for fuel cells, Raouf O. Loutfy, Perumal Pugazhendhi, Ken Tasaki, and Arunkumar Venkatesan, MC Research & Innovation Center and Materials and Electrochemical Resarch (MER) Corp.

U.S. 6,949,305 (20050927), Separator for fuel cell, method for producing separator and fuel cell applied with separator, Toshihisa Terazawa, Shinji Nezu, and Masami Ishii, Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,949,306 (20050927), High temperature stable adhesive, Thomas Anhorn, Peter Schenk, and Hans-Rainer Zerfass, Elring Klinger AG (DE).

U.S. 6,949,307 (20050927), High performance ceramic fuel cell interconnect with integrated flowpaths and method for making same, Thomas L. Cable, Kurt E. Kneidel, Eric A. Barringer, and Thomas C. Yuan, SFCo-EFS Holdings, LLC.

U.S. 6,949,308 (20050927), Gas diffusion substrate, John Malcolm Gascoyne, Graham Alan Hards, Karen Leanne Hogarth, Thomas Robertson Ralph, Stephen John Edwards, and Nigel Julian Walker, Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company (GB) and Technical Fibre Products Limited (GB).

U.S. 6,949,309 (20050927), Battery cooling system, Robert G. Moores Jr., Rouse R. Bailey Jr., Robert Bradus, John R. Cochran, Lee W. Ramstrom, Fred S. Watts, Paul S. White, Daniele C. Brotto, and Janet M. Embrey, Black & Decker Inc.

U.S. 6,949,310 (20050927), Leak proof pressure relief valve for secondary batteries, Jeffrey Phillips, PowerGenix Systems, Inc.

U.S. 6,949,311 (20050927), Battery structure, Yu-Lin Chung (TW).

U.S. 6,949,312 (20050927), Electrode material for anode of rechargeable lithium battery, electrode structural body using said electrode material, rechargeable lithium battery using said electrode structural body, process for producing said electrode structural body, and process for producing said rechargeable lithium battery, Soichiro Kawakami and Masaya Asao, Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,949,313 (20050927), Battery with a microcorrugated, microthin sheet of highly porous corroded metal, Rodney M. LaFollette, BioPolar Technologies Corporation.

U.S. 6,949,314 (20050927), Carbon-carbon composite anode for secondary non-aqueous electrochemical cells, Sohrab Hossain, LiTech, LLC.

U.S. 6,949,315 (20050927), Shutdown separators with improved properties, Garrin Samii, Abbas M Samii, and Dave C. Veno.

U.S. 6,949,317 (20050927), Polymer gel electrolyte and secondary cell, Hiroshi Yoshida, Kimiyo Hata, Tatsuya Maruo, and Takaya Sato, Nisshinbo Industries, Inc. (JP).

U.S. 6,949,318 (20050927), Polymeric gel electrolyte and lithium battery employing the same, Young-min Choi, Byoung-hyun Kang, and Jin-kyoung Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 6,949,616 (20050927), Proton-conductive membranes and layers and methods for their production, Stephane Jacob (DE), Lothar Frohlich (DE), Konrad Olma (DE), Michael Popall (DE), and Frank Kahlenberg (DE).

U.S. 6,949,683 (20050927), Process for catalytic autothermal steam reforming of alcohols, Stefan Wieland and Frank Baumann, Umicore AG & Co. KG (DE).

U.S. 6,949,907 (20050927), Method and apparatus for extending the torque range of a stepper motor, Charles R. DeJohn, Delphi Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 6,949,910 (20050927), Methods and systems for battery charging control based on CMOS technology, Chun-ying Chen, Broadcom Corporation.

U.S. 6,949,911 (20050927), Method for determining the amount of charge which can be drawn from a storage battery and a monitoring device for a storage battery, Helmut Laig-Hoerstebrock and Eberhard Meissner, VB Autobatterie GmbH (DE).

U.S. 6,949,913 (20050927), Charging apparatus and charging method, Tamiji Nagai, Kazuo Yamazaki, and Tadahisa Yamamoto, Sony Corporation (JP).

U.S. 6,949,914 (20050927), Charging apparatus, Takao Aradachi and Nobuhiro Takano, Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,949,920 (20050927), Apparatus for measuring current density of fuel cell, Masahiro Mohri, Yosuke Fujii, Katsumi Hayashi, and Toshiya Wakahoi, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,950,030 (20050927), Battery charge indicating circuit, Illya Kovarik and George R. Gawell, Credo Technology Corporation.

U.S. 6,950,320 (20050927), Portable charging apparatus having a charging battery built-in, Hyung-Bum Shin (KR).

U.S. 6,950,683 (20050927), Battery life indication, Allan Hunt, Nokia Mobile Phones Limited (FI).

U.S. 6,950,729 (20050927), Portable fuel-cell-powered system with ultrasonic atomization of H2O by-product, Nathan Mitchell and Joseph F. Freiman.