U.S. FUEL CELL AND BATTERY PATENTS

Compiled by Eddie T. Seo
etseo@netway.net
Littleton, CO, USA

Official Gazette, Volume 1276 (November 2003)

U.S. 6,640,626 (20031104), Method and system for identifying a type of gas, George Saikalis, Shigeru Oho, and Takashi Kadohiro, Hitachi, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,641,084 (20031104), Solid oxide fuel cell as auxiliary power source installation in transport aircraft, James M. Huber, Joel D. Lindstrom, David L. Daggett, and Michael G. Friend, The Boeing Co.

U.S. 6,641,625 (20031104), Integrated hydrocarbon reforming system and controls, Lawrence G. Clawson, Matthew H. Dorson, William L. Mitchell, Brian J. Nowicki, Johannes Thijssen, Robert Davis, Christopher Papile, Jennifer W Rumsey, Nathan Longo, James C. Cross III, Vincent Rizzo, Gunther Kleeburg, Michael Rindone, Stephen G. Block, Maria Sun, Brian D. Morriseau, Mark R. Hagan, and Brian Bowers, Nuvera Fuel Cells, Inc.

U.S. 6,641,626 (20031104), Mixed ionic and electronic conducting ceramic membranes for hydrocarbon processing, Pamela Van Calcar, Richard Mackay, and Anthony F. Sammells, Eltron Research, Inc.

U.S. 6,641,647 (20031104), Hydrogen-permeable structure and method of manufacturing the same, Takashi Uemura, Kentaro Yoshida, Nobuyuki Okuda, and Takeshi Hikata, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,641,780 (20031104), Ferritic stainless steel having high temperature creep resistance, John F. Grubb, ATI Properties Inc.

U.S. 6,641,793 (20031104), Method of solubilizing single-walled carbon nanotubes in organic solutions, Robert C. Haddon and Jian Chen, University of Kentucky Research Foundation.

U.S. 6,641,795 (20031104), Reformer and method for operation thereof, Fumio Abe, NGK Insulators, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,641,862 (20031104), Preparation of fuel cell electrode assemblies, Stephen Andreas Grot, Ion Power, Inc.

U.S. 6,641,944 (20031104), Fuel cell drive system, Emi Kawasumi and Yasukazu Iwasaki, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,641,945 (20031104), Fuel cell, Gus M. Griffin.

U.S. 6,641,946 (20031104), Fuel dissipater for pressurized fuel cell generators, Richard A. Basel and John E. King, Siemens Westinghouse Power Corp.

U.S. 6,641,948 (20031104), Fuel cells having silicon substrates and/or sol-gel derived support structures, Leroy J. Ohlsen, Aaron M. Cooke, Jonathan C. Mallari, Chung M. Chan, Gordon L. Rice, and Craig E. Nelson, Neah Power Systems Inc.

U.S. 6,642,319 (20031104), Process for making graft copolymers, Jose Rodriguez– Parada, E I du Pont de Nemours and Co.

U.S. 6,642,526 (20031104), Field ionizing elements and applications thereof, Frank T. Hartley, Ionfinity LLC.

U.S. 6,644,246 (20031111), Evaporator, Roland Cwik, Andreas Ebert, Oskar Lamla, Martin Schuessler, and Tomas Stefanovski, Ballard Power Systems AG (DE).

U.S. 6,644,946 (20031111), Scroll type compressor, Yoshiyuki Nakane, Takahiro Moroi, Ryuta Kawaguchi, and Tsutomu Nasuda, Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki (JP).

U.S. 6,645,271 (20031111), Adsorption element and methods, Kevin John Seguin, Steven Alan Carter, Andrew James Dallas, Lefei Ding, Brian Nghia Hoang, and Jon Dennis, Donaldson Co., Inc.

U.S. 6,645,443 (20031111), Device for reforming educts containing hydrocarbons, Bernhard Vogel, Alexander Schuler, and Konstantin Ledjeff–Hey, Fraunhofer– Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung eV (DE).

U.S. 6,645,455 (20031111), Chemical derivatization of single-wall carbon nanotubes to facilitate solvation thereof; and use of derivatized nanotubes to form catalystcontaining seed materials for use in making carbon fibers, John L. Margrave, Edward T. Mickelson, Robert Hauge, Peter Boul, Chad Huffman, Jie Liu, Richard E. Smalley, Ken Smith, and Daniel T. Colbert, William Marsh Rice University.

U.S. 6,645,650 (20031111), Procedure for purging a fuel cell system with inert gas made from organic fuel, Alfred P. Meyer and Vincent M. Callaghan, UTC Fuel Cells, LLC.

U.S. 6,645,651 (20031111), Fuel generator with diffusion ampoules for fuel cells, Robert G. Hockaday, Patrick S. Turner, Zachary R. Bradford, Marc D. DeJohn, Carlos J. Navas, F. Wade Uhrich, Heathcliff L. Vaz, and L. Luke Vazul.

U.S. 6,645,652 (20031111), Fuel cell electric power generation system, Ryan Cownden, Michael Eiche, Craig Louie, and David S. Watkins, Ballard Generation Systems Inc (CA).

U.S. 6,645,653 (20031111), Fuel cell system, controller thereof and method, Naoto Kashiwagi, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,645,654 (20031111), Fuel cell system, Youichi Yagi, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,645,655 (20031111), Passively pumped liquid feed fuel cell system, George C. McNamee and William P. Acker, MTI MicroFuel Cells Inc.

U.S. 6,645,656 (20031111), Thin film solid oxide fuel cell and method for forming, Xin Chen, Naijuan Wu, and Alex Ignatiev, University of Houston.

U.S. 6,645,657 (20031111), Sol-gel coated cathode side hardware for carbonate fuel cells, Chao Huang and Jian Li, FuelCell Energy, Inc.

U.S. 6,645,658 (20031111), Conductive plate and manufacturing method thereof, Eiichiro Morozumi, Araco Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,645,659 (20031111), Fuel cell apparatus, Toru Bisaka, Hiroaki Nishiumi, and Hideyuki Tanaka, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,645,660 (20031111), Screen-printing paste and screen-printing method of fabricating a gas diffusion electrode, Armin Datz, Barbara Schricker, Manfred Waidhas, Winfried Schaffrath, and Peter Otschik, Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (DE).

U.S. 6,645,772 (20031111), Method for improved detection of carbon monoxide by infrared absorption spectroscopy, Kevin W. Kirby, Amanda C. Phelps, and Robert N. Schwartz, HRL Laboratories, LLC.

U.S. 6,646,078 (20031111), Method of producing paraffin wax for aqueous dispersion polymerization of tetrafluoroethylene and method of producing a polytetrafluoroethylene using the same, Shigeki Kobayashi, Jun Hoshikawa, Kazuo Kato, Hiroki Kamiya, and Hiroyuki Hirai, Asahi Glass Co, Ltd (JP) and Asahi Glass Fluoropolymers Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,646,413 (20031111), Fuel cell system and method for operating the fuel cell system, Rainer Autenrieth, Gerhard Konrad, Karsten Ledwig, Michael Niehues, and Markus Walter, DaimlerChrysler AG (DE).

U.S. 6,646,418 (20031111), Method and apparatus for fuel cell protection, Chenggang Xie and Jerald A. Hallmark, Motorola, Inc.

U.S. 6,648,018 (20031118), Bypass control valve, Frederic Gagnon, Siemens Automotive Inc. (CA).

U.S. 6,648,019 (20031118), Air mass flow controller, Frederic Gagnon, Siemens Automotive Inc. (CA).

U.S. 6,649,031 (20031118), Corrosion resistant coated fuel cell bipolar plate with filledin fine scale porosities and method of making the same, Zafar Iqbal, Dave Narasimhan, James V. Guiheen, and Timothy Rehg, Hybrid Power Generation Systems, LLC.

U.S. 6,648,062 (20031118), Heat sink-type cooling device, Tomohiro Fukazu, Tomoya Yamagishi, and Hirotomo Koike, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,649,097 (20031118), Method of making a gasket for layer-built fuel cells, Yasunori Sasaki, Kazuhisa Senda, Osamu Nagai, Shigeo Wakamatsu, Osamu Ando, and Tasashi Fujimoto, Nok Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,649,102 (20031118), Method of cutting expanded graphite sheet material, Neil V. Davis and David Brown, Ballard Power Systems Inc. (CA).

U.S. 6,649,211 (20031118), Selective deposition of hydrous ruthenium oxide thin films, Karen Swider Lyons and Debra Rose Rolison, The United States of America.

U.S. 6,649,289 (20031118), Fuel cell power supply system, Michael S. Hsu and Robin Y. P. Ong, Ztek Corp.

U.S. 6,649,290 (20031118), Fuel cell thermal management system and method, David Leboe and Adrian J. Corless, Cellex Power Products, Inc.

U.S. 6,649,291 (20031118), Method for driving a fuel cell vehicle and fuel cell vehicle, Masaki Iijima and Kazuto Kobayashi, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,649,292 (20031118), Fuel cell system having a reformer unit, Norbert Breuer and Christian Schiller, Robert Bosch GmbH (DE).

U.S. 6,649,293 (20031118), Heatable end plate, fuel cell assembly, and method for operating a fuel cell assembly, Daniel O. Jones, Plug Power Inc.

U.S. 6,649,295 (20031118), Membrane electrode assembly having annealed polymer electrolyte membrane, Steven Joseph Hamrock, John Leonard Lewin, and Shane Shanhong Mao, 3M Innovative Properties Co.

U.S. 6,649,296 (20031118), Unitized cell solid oxide fuel cells, Nguyen Q. Minh, Hybrid Power Generation Systems, LLC.

U.S. 6,649,297 (20031118), Bipolar plates for fuel cell and fuel cell comprising same, Marielle Marchand, Olivier Lebaigue, Michel Amblard, Bruno Bador, Fabien Heurtaux, and Jean–Pierre Lisse, Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique (FR), Automobiles Peugeot (FR), Automobiles Citrogen (FR), and Renault SA (FR).

U.S. 6,649,298 (20031118), Electronic apparatus using fuel cell assembly, Kyoji Hayashi, Nobutaka Nakamura, Naoki Fujiwara, and Fumitaka Sato, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP).

U.S. 6,649,299 (20031118), Gas diffusion electrode with nanosized pores and method for making same, A. John Appleby and Serguey Gamburzev, The Texas A&M University System.

U.S. 6,649,300 (20031118), Electrode catalyst and electrochemical devices using the same, Takashi Ito and Masahai Endou, NE Chemcat Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,649,559 (20031118), Supported metal membrane, a process for its preparation and use, Ernst Drost, Werner Kuhn, Meike Roos, Stefan Wieland, and Bernd Kempf, dmc2 Degussa Metals Catalysts Cerdec AG (DE).

U.S. 6,649,562 (20031118), Methanol-decomposing catalyst and methanol-decomposing apparatus comprising same, Takahiro Naka, Hideaki Sumi, Kazuhito Matsuda, and Shoji Isobe, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,649,703 (20031118), Cross-linked sulphonated polymers and their preparation process, Christophe Michot and Michel Armand, Hydro–Quebec (CA).

U.S. 6,650,102 (20031118), High throughput mechanical property testing of materials libraries using a piezoelectric, Damian A. Hajduk, Eric D. Carlson, J. Christopher Freitag, Oleg Kolosov, James R. Engstrom, Adam Safir, Ravi Srinivasan, and Leonid Matsiev, Symyx Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 6,650,968 (20031118), Technique to regulate an efficiency of a fuel cell system, Ryan Hallum, Eric Kueckels, Richard J. Graham, Adam Solodow, Mark Torpey, Arne Ballantine, and Chris Comi, Plug Power Inc.

U.S. 6,651,597 (20031125), Plasmatron having an air jacket and method for operating the same, Michael J. Daniel, Rudolf M. Smaling, Kurt D. Zwanzig, M. Lee Murrah, and Shawn D. Bauer, Arvin Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 6,651,701 (20031125), Hydrogen storage apparatus and charging method therefor, Takahiro Kuriiwa, Toshiaki Shimada, and Yoshio Nuiya, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,651,761 (20031125), Temperature control system for fuel cell electric vehicle cooling circuit, Davorin David Hrovat, Jahanbakhsh Asgari, Josko Deur, and William Samuel Schwartz, Ford Global Technologies, LLC.

U.S. 6,652,723 (20031125), Hydrogen gas sensor, Norihiko Nadanami, Norobu Ishida, Takafumi Oshima, Ryuji Inoue, and Tomonori Kondo, NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,652,732 (20031125), Fan flow sensor for proton exchange membrane electrolysis cell, Lawrence C. Moulthrop, Ricky S. Scott, Charles Bennet McCollough, Richard A Dubey Jr., and A. John Speranza, Proton Energy Systems, Inc.

U.S. 6,652,830 (20031125), Catalysts reactors and methods of producing hydrogen via the water–gas shift reaction, Yong Wang and Anna Lee Y. Tonkovich, Battelle Memorial Institute.

U.S. 6,653,002 (20031125), Quick charge battery with thermal management, Ronald J. Parise.

U.S. 6,653,003 (20031125), Fuel cell support and electrical interconnector, Tsepin Tsai, Wayne Yao, Lin–Feng Li, George Tzeng, Michael Rabin, William Morris, and Sadeg M. Faris, Reveo Inc.

U.S. 6,653,004 (20031125), Process control for multiple air supplies, Jeffrey Lewis Barber.

U.S. 6,653,005 (20031125), Portable hydrogen generator–fuel cell apparatus, Nazim Muradov, University of Central Florida.

U.S. 6,653,006 (20031125), System for fuel cell reformer start-up, Paul J. Berlowitz, Ramesh Varadaraj, and Frank Hershkowitz, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co.

U.S. 6,653,007 (20031125), Hydrogen generator for fuel cell operation, Edward Milton McWhorter.

U.S. 6,653,008 (20031125), Fuel cell apparatus, Syuji Hirakata, Shin Nishida, Akira Aoto, Toru Bisaka, Hideyuki Tanaka, and Yutaka Hotta, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,653,009 (20031125), Solid oxide fuel cells and interconnectors, Conghua Wang, Ponnusamy Palanisamy, Mark Stuart Hammond, and Barry Jay Thaler, Sarnoff Corp.

U.S. 6,653,010 (20031125), Fuel cell system, Andreas Knoop, Ballard Power Systems AG (DE).

U.S. 6,653,011 (20031125), Electrochemical cell frame having integral protector portion, Mark E. Dristy, Proton Energy Systems, Inc.

U.S. 6,653,012 (20031125), Humidifier, Motohiro Suzuki, Toshikatsu Katagiri, Yoshio Kusano, and Hiroshi Shimanuki, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,653,252 (20031125), Method of manufacturing electrode or electrode–electrolyte membrane joint body for fuel cell and electrode for fuel cell, Tatsuya Kawahara, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,653,515 (20031125), Synthesis of a,b,b–trifluorostyrene via in-situ formation of trifluorovinyl metal halide, Charles Stone, Timothy J. Peckham, Donald J. Burton, and Anilkumar Raghavanpillai, Ballard Power Systems Inc (CA).

U.S. 6,653,749 (20031125), Portable power supply system and a method for providing electrical power, Geoffrey Delbridge, Plug Power Inc.