U.S. FUEL CELL AND BATTERY PATENTS

Official Gazette, Volume 1286 (September 2004)

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. 6,786,741 (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. 6,787,115 (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. 6,787,235 (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. 6,787,500 (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. 6,789,421 (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. 6,790,247 (20040914), Compact fuel processor, Robert Childress, John R. Farrell, Wendell B. Leimbach, and James W. Marshall, Texaco Inc.

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. 6,790,430 (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. 6,790,546 (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. 6,790,931 (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. 6,792,320 (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. 6,793,693 (20040921), Method for utilizing a fuel by using exothermic prereactions 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. 6,794,067 (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. 6,794,075 (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. 6,794,086 (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. 6,794,470 (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. 6,794,844 (20040921), Method and system for fuel cell control, Clark Hochgraf and Prabhakar Singh, Visteon Global Technologies, 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. 6,797,022 (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. 6,797,091 (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. 6,797,418 (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. 6,797,662 (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. 6,798,221 (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).