u.s. battery & fuel cell patents

Official Gazette, Volume 1327 (February 2008)

U.S. 7,325,432 (20080205), Method for manufacturing fuel cell metallic separator, Teruyuki Ohtani, Makoto Tsuji, Masao Utsunomiya, and Koji Kotani, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,325,561 (20080205), Hydrogen vehicle gas utilization and refueling system, Steven R. Mathison and Shiro Matsuo, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,326,281 (20080205), Hydrogen storage tank, Katsuyoshi Fujita, Hidehito Kubo, Masahiko Kimbara, and Daigoro Mori, Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki (JP) and Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,326,479 (20080205), Protection circuit module and battery pack incorporating the same, Koshi Nishimura and Mitsunori Nagashima, Rohm Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,326,480 (20080205), Fuel cell power system and method of controlling a fuel cell power system, William A. Fuglevand, Relion, Inc.

U.S. 7,326,481 (20080205), Fuel cell system, Arne W. Ballantine, Scott K. Lobdell, and Sean S. Lyons, Plug Power Inc.

U.S. 7,326,482 (20080205), Apparatus and method for operation of a high temperature fuel cell system using recycled anode exhaust, Karl J. Haltiner Jr., Malcolm J. Grieve, Kevin R. Keegan, and David R. Schumann, Delphi Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 7,326,483 (20080205), Fuel cell system, Karuki Hamada and Takeshi Aoyagi, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,326,484 (20080205), 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. 7,326,485 (20080205), Fuel cell with a seal tightly in contact with an electrode for preventing leakage of a reactant gas, Hiromichi Yoshida, Daisuke Wachi, Masahiro Mohri, Yosuke Fujii, Narutoshi Sugita, and Shuhei Goto, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,326,486 (20080205), Separator for fuel cell, Kouetsu Hibino and Toshiyuki Suzuki, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,326,487 (20080205), Method for fabricating membrane-electrode assembly and fuel cell adopting the membrane-electrode assembly, Hyuk Chang, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,326,488 (20080205), Diffusion film, electrode having the diffusion film, and process for producing diffusion film, Michinao Hayashi, Tohru Sugitani, and Yoshitaka Asano, Nippon Valqua Industries, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,326,489 (20080205), Catalyst design for VRLA batteries, William E. M. Jones and Harold A. Vanasse, Philadelphia Scientific.

U.S. 7,326,490 (20080205), Battery cooling system, Robert G. Moores Jr., Rouse R. Bailey Jr., Robert Bradus, John R. Cochran, Lee W. Ramstrom, and Douglas L. Kreiser, Black & Decker Inc.

U.S. 7,326,491 (20080205), Electrochemical device, Tetsuya Takahashi and Yoshihiko Ohashi, TDK Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,326,492 (20080205), Laminate sheet, laminate battery and related method, Takaaki Abe, Takanori Ito, Osamu Shimamura, Takamitsu Saito, Hideaki Horie, Hiroshi Sugawara, Yukinori Takahashi, Masaaki Suzuki, and Kenji Hamada, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,326,493 (20080205), Lithium electrochemical generator comprising at least a bipolar electrode with conductive aluminium or aluminium alloy substrates, Sébastien Martinet and Frédéric Le Cras, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (FR).

U.S. 7,326,494 (20080205), Composite material and electrodes made therefrom, Liya Wang, Chuanjing Xu, and John M. Miller, T/J Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 7,326,495 (20080205), Hydrogen storage material with high storage capacity, Martin Ouwerkerk, Danielle Beelen, Wilhelmus Cornelis Keur, and Henricus Albertus Maria Van Hal, Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV (NL).

U.S. 7,326,496 (20080205), Alkali dry cell, Takayuki Umebayashi and Mitsuji Adachi, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,326,497 (20080205), Graphite-containing composition, negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery, and lithium secondary battery, Keiko Matsubara, Toshiaki Tsuno, Akira Takamuku, and Kyou-Yoon Sheem, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,326,498 (20080205), Method for preparing positive active material for rechargeable lithium battery and positive active material prepared by same, Yong-Chul Park, Geun-Bae Kim, Jun-Won Suh, and Won-Il Jung, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,326,499 (20080205), Alkaline storage battery, Yoichi Izumi, Tetsuo Nanno, and Hiroyuki Sakamoto, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,326,669 (20080205), Substrate having catalyst compositions on surfaces of opposite sides, Ting He, Eisuke Kimura, and Tadashi Nomura, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,326,736 (20080205), Composite proton exchange membrane and method of manufacturing the same, Robert C. McDonald and Anthony B. LaConti, Giner Electrochemical Systems, LLC.

U.S. 7,326,737 (20080205), Polymer electrolyte membranes crosslinked by direct fluorination, Miguel A. Guerra, 3M Innovative Properties Co.

U.S. 7,327,119 (20080205), Method of extending battery life, Stanley W. Stephenson III, Eastman Kodak Co.

U.S. 7,327,120 (20080205), Charger assembly for a power cell for an electrical tool, Chun-Hsiao Lin, Techway Industrial Co., Ltd. (TW).

U.S. 7,327,121 (20080205), Charger having output voltage regulating function, Yao-Ti Chen, Goodti Industrial Co., Ltd. (TW).

U.S. 7,327,122 (20080205), Battery heating circuit, Robert Kamenoff, Mathews Associates, Inc.

U.S. 7,327,147 (20080205), Device and method for determining characteristic variables for batteries, Ingo Koch, VB Autobatterie GmbH & Co. KGaA (DE).

U.S. 7,327,544 (20080205), Battery protection device, David C. McClure and William D. Bishop, STMicroelectronics, Inc.

U.S. 7,327,556 (20080205), Carbon-coated aluminum and method for producing same, Akinori Ro and Zenya Ashitaka, Toyo Aluminum Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 7,329,157 (20080212), Mechanically advantaged band clamp and associated method, Marian D. Maxwell, Scott D. Maxwell, Raymond Q. Draggie, and Charles A. Lemaire, Mechanical Answers LLC.

U.S. 7,329,158 (20080212), Push-lock terminal connection assembly, James Dickinson Roberts, Joseph Paul Kalisz, James Leroy Jones III, Kevin James Updike, and Weizhen Brenda Wang, Yazaki North America, Inc.

U.S. 7,329,290 (20080212), Fuel reforming apparatus for producing a carbon-monoxide free reformed fuel gas comprising hydrogen, Weldon S. Williamson and John J. Vajo, HRL Laboratories, LLC.

U.S. 7,329,348 (20080212), Fuel cell system including an ion filter, Andrew J. Curello, Floyd Fairbanks, and David L. Reichert, Societe BIC (FR).

U.S. 7,329,432 (20080212), Method for manufacturing fuel cell, and electronic device and automobile including the fuel cell, Hirotsuna Miura, Seiko Epson Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,329,469 (20080212), Method of establishing connections between measuring electronics and fuel cell stack, Matthew K. Hortop, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 7,329,470 (20080212), Apparatus and method for in situ production of fuel for a fuel cell, Paul Adams, Andrew J. Curello, and Floyd Fairbanks, Societe BIC (FR).

U.S. 7,329,471 (20080212), Methods and apparatus for assembling solid oxide fuel cells, Richard Scott Bourgeois, Richard Louis Hart, Melvin Robert Jackson, Chang Wei, Canan Uslu Hardwicke, and Michael Francis Xavier Gigliotti Jr., General Electric Co.

U.S. 7,329,472 (20080212), Fuel cell system and stack used thereto, Dong-Hun Lee, Ho-Jin Kweon, Seong-Jin An, Hyoung-Juhn Kim, Jun-Won Suh, Jong-Man Kim, Hae-Kwon Yoon, and Yeong-Chan Eun, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,329,473 (20080212), Secondary battery, Ko-Chen Shen, Hsi-Ming Shu, and Cheng Hsin Chen, Antig Technology Co., Ltd. (TW).

U.S. 7,329,623 (20080212), Durable hydrophilic nonwoven mat, Larry L. Kinn, Ashish Mathur, and Gregory Neil Henning, Ahlstrom Mount Holly Springs LLC.

U.S. 7,329,698 (20080212), Conductive curable resin composition and separator for fuel cell, Masayuki Noguchi, Tomoaki Kobayashi, and Tadashi Iino, Showa Denko KK (JP).

U.S. 7,329,896 (20080212), Polymerizable charge transport compounds, Steven Tierney, Mark Goulding, Louise Farrand, Mark Giles, Marcus Thompson, Maxim Shkunov, David Sparrowe, Iain McCulloch, and Martin Heeney, Merck Patent GmbH (DE).

U.S. 7,330,013 (20080212), Apparatus and method for charging and discharging a battery, Dale Wolin, Eugene Cohen, and Richard G. Sevier, Hewlett-Packard Development Co., LP.

U.S. 7,332,000 (20080219), Method of producing gel negative electrode for alkaline battery and apparatus for producing the same, Shigeto Noya, Yasuo Mukai, Kenji Shiotani, and Hideki Misaki, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP) and Nissui Chemicals Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,332,003 (20080219), Hydrocarbon fuel processing for hydrogen generation, Zhijiang Li, Mark D. Fokema, and Wendell E. Rhine, Aspen Products Group, Inc.

U.S. 7,332,065 (20080219), Electrode, Takayuki Shimamune, Akzo Nobel NV (NL).

U.S. 7,332,108 (20080219), Method of preparing a thin ceramic composition with two materials, the composition thus obtained and the constituent electrochemical cell and membrane, Thierry Chartier and François Guillotin, L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme a Directoire et Conseil de Surveillance pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude (FR).

U.S. 7,332,235 (20080219), Fuel cell system, Ui-Sik Jeon, Young-Min Choi, and Sang-Yeoul Ahn, Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,332,236 (20080219), 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. 7,332,237 (20080219), Steam reforming of solid carbon in protonic ceramic fuel cells, W. Grover Coors, Protonetics International, Inc.

U.S. 7,332,238 (20080219), Electrochemical cells and systems, Sathya Motupally and Jonathan O'Neill, The Gillette Co.

U.S. 7,332,239 (20080219), Coolant flow transfer component for liquid cooled fuel cell stacks, Stephen Raiser, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 7,332,240 (20080219), Spatially varying diffusion media and devices incorporating the same, Jeanette E O'Hara, Thomas A. Trabold, Michael R. Schoeneweiss, and Joerg Roth, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 7,332,241 (20080219), Cathode layer structure for a solid polymer fuel cell and fuel cell incorporating such structure, Frederic Jaouen, AB Volvo (SE).

U.S. 7,332,242 (20080219), Lithium-based battery having extensible, ion-impermeable polymer covering on the battery container, Takaya Sato, Hiroshi Yoshida, and Zenzo Hashimoto, Itochu Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,332,243 (20080219), Battery and battery container, Gerald A. Cummins and Jack Bruss, Johnson Controls Technology Co.

U.S. 7,332,244 (20080219), Battery module, Seiichi Uemoto and Kenji Kimura, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,332,245 (20080219), Electrode for electrochemical devices and battery using the same, Mitsuhiro Kishimi and Hiroshi Fukunaga, Hitachi Maxell Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,332,246 (20080219), Galvanic element with a set of wound electrodes, Rolf Wiepen, Varta Automotive Systems GmbH (DE).

U.S. 7,332,247 (20080219), Electrode for an electrochemical cell and process for making the electrode, Quinn C. Horn, Eveready Battery Co., Inc.

U.S. 7,332,248 (20080219), Active material for positive electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and method of manufacturing the same, Katsuya Kase, Shigeki Kubo, Hirofumi Iisaka, Ko Nozaki, Satoru Suzuki, and Manabu Yamada, Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. (JP), Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP), and DENSO Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,332,363 (20080219), Integrated battery pack with lead frame connection, Malcolm Edwards, Dialog Semiconductor GmbH (DE).

U.S. 7,332,530 (20080219), Proton-conducting polymer membrane comprising a polymer with sulphonic acid groups and use thereof in fuel cells, Joachim Kiefer, Oemer Uensal, and Gordon Calundann, Celanese Ventures GmbH (DE).

U.S. 7,332,531 (20080219), Microporous high density polyethylene film, Young Keun Lee, Jang Weon Rhee, Won Young Cho, Jung Moon Sung, Byoung Cheon Jo, Chol Ho Lee, In Hwa Jung, and Byung Rae Jung, SK Corp. (KR).

U.S. 7,332,889 (20080219), Battery charger, Kevin L Glasgow, David J. Rozwadowski, Jeffrey M Zeiler, and George L. Santana Jr., Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp.

U.S. 7,332,891 (20080219), Abnormality diagnosis device and method for battery pack, Tomonaga Sugimoto, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,332,892 (20080219), Method for predicting the voltage of a battery, Richard Bopp and Armin Klöpfer, Daimler AG (DE).

U.S. 7,332,893 (20080219), Battery pack with internal charge/power switching, Don J. Nguyen and Bruce W. Rose, Intel Corp.

U.S. 7,333,315 (20080219), Secondary battery devices, Masami Kawazu, Hisaya Tamura, Yuji Furuuchi, Masahiro Matsuyoshi, and Kazutaka Furuta, Sony Chemical & Information Device Corp. (JP) and Sony Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,333,325 (20080219), Battery for dockable electronic device, Ronald E. DeLuga, Earl Moore, and Paul Doczy, Hewlett-Packard Development Co., LP.

U.S. 7,333,902 (20080219), Maximum and minimum power limit calculator for batteries and battery subpacks, Robert J. Melichar, Cobasys, LLC.

U.S. 7,335,321 (20080226), Films for electrochemical components and method for production thereof, Peter Birke and Fatima Salam, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung eV (DE).

U.S. 7,335,430 (20080226), Fuel cell system, Takahiro Kuriiwa, Ryoji Takenawa, and Hirokazu Kuwabara, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,335,431 (20080226), Fuel cell with embedded series/parallel mechanism, Tsang-Ming Chang, Chun-Wei Pan, and Chia-Hao Chang, Antig Technology Co., Ltd. (TW).

U.S. 7,335,432 (20080226), Solid oxide fuel cell portable power source, Chowdary R. Koripella, Motorola, Inc.

U.S. 7,335,434 (20080226), Fuel cell separator assembly with diffusion layer, manufacturing method therefor, fuel cell unit, and fuel cell stack, Kentaro Nagoshi, Keisuke Andou, and Takeshi Matsubara, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,335,435 (20080226), Water storage device for fuel cell system and fuel cell system equipped with the same, Kazuhiro Yamada, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,335,436 (20080226), Proton exchange membrane fuel cell stack, Ji-rae Kim and Kyoung-hwan Choi, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,335,437 (20080226), Fuel cell stack, Felix Blank, Cosmas Heller, and Ottmar Schmid, DaimlerChrysler AG (DE).

U.S. 7,335,438 (20080226), Bipolar plate and fuel cell including the same, Seung Jae Lee, Kyoung Hwan Choi, and Hyuk Chang, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 7,335,439 (20080226), Hermetically sealed battery, Katsuya Kawano, Motoo Tadokoro, and Fumiyoshi Yoshinari, SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,335,440 (20080226), Lithium-limited anode subassembly with solid anode current collector and spacer, Paul B. Aamodt, Karl E. Hokanson, Sonja K. Somdahl, Craig L. Schmidt, and Joseph J. Viavattine, Medtronic, Inc.

U.S. 7,335,441 (20080226), Thin layer electrochemical cell with self-formed separator, Shalom Luski, Ehud Shchori, and Zvi Nitzan, Power Paper Ltd. (IL).

U.S. 7,335,442 (20080226), Battery with current collector plate welded to electrode terminal assembly, Naoya Nakanishi, Kouichi Satoh, Atsuhiro Funahashi, Toshiyuki Nohma, Yasuhiro Yamauchi, and Noriyuki Miyazaki, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,335,443 (20080226), Electric coupling of a connection to a terminal, Frederic Magneron, Saft Group SA (FR).

U.S. 7,335,444 (20080226), Positive electrode active material for a secondary battery, secondary battery and process of manufacturing positive electrode active material for a secondary battery, Tatsuji Numata and Yoshitada Tomioka, NEC Corp. (JP).

U.S. 7,335,445 (20080226), Positive electrode active material for alkaline storage battery, positive electrode and alkaline storage battery, Hiroyuki Sakamoto, Hidekatsu Izumi, and Yoichi Izumi, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,335,446 (20080226), Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Takanobu Chiga, Katsunori Yanagida, Atsushi Yanai, and Yoshinori Kida, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,335,447 (20080226), Graphite particles and lithium secondary battery using the same as negative electrode, Yoshito Ishii, Tatsuya Nishida, Atsushi Fujita, and Kazuo Yamada, Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,335,448 (20080226), Lithium ion secondary battery, Tsuyoshi Kaito, Futoshi Tanigawa, and Naoto Arai, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 7,335,619 (20080226), Catalyst for fuel electrode of solid polymer fuel cell, Tomoyuki Tada, Masahiko Inoue, and Koichi Matsutani, Tanaka Kikinzoku KK (JP).

U.S. 7,336,054 (20080226), Apparatus and method of activating a microcontroller, Robert Crisp, Kevin Glasgow, Joseph Willhide, Glen C. Spence, and George L. Santana Jr., Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp.

U.S. 7,336,055 (20080226), Method for detecting abnormality of temperature sensors, and power supply apparatus, Teruo Ishishita, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

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