U.S. FUEL CELL AND BATTERY PATENTS

Official Gazette, Volume 1294 (May 2005)

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 nonshrinking 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. 6,887,436 (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 Ltd. Co. (GB).

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. 6,887,615 (20050503), Microvalve for controlling fluid flow, Faiz Feisal Sherman, Vladimir Gartstein, and Daniel Jonathan Quiram, The Procter & Gamble 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. 6,889,147 (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. 6,890,490 (20050510), Hydrogen absorbing tank apparatus, Nobuo Fujita and Hidehito Kubo, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP) and Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho (JP).

U.S. 6,890,670 (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. 6,890,986 (20050510), Substantially pure bulk pyrocarbon and methods of preparation, James Gary Pruett, Hitco Carbon Composites, 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. 6,893,481 (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. 6,893,708 (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. 6,893,754 (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. 6,896,709 (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. 6,896,982 (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. 6,897,513 (20050524), Perovskite-type material forming methods, capacitor dielectric forming methods, and capacitor constructions, Jerome M. Eldridge, Micron Technology, Inc.

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

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 H.-rich gas and a CO.-rich gas at high pressure, Ola Olsvik, Den Norske Stats Oljeselskap AS (NO).

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. 6,899,922 (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 Company.

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. 6,901,302 (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).