U.S. Fuel Cell and Battery Patents
Official Gazette, Volume 1329 (April 2008)
U.S. 7,350,604 (20080401), Gaseous fuel system for automotive vehicle, Michael J. Veenstra, Majed Mohammed, Daniel J. Walesky, and Brian C. Moorhead, Ford Global Technologies, LLC.
U.S. 7,351,395 (20080401), Hydrogen storage by reversible hydrogenation of piconjugated substrates, Guido Peter Pez, Aaron Raymond Scott, Alan Charles Cooper, Hansong Cheng, Frederick Carl Wilhelm, and Atteye Houssein Abdourazak, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
U.S. 7,351,444 (20080401), Low platinum fuel cell catalysts and method for preparing the same, Ning Wang, Yi Dong, and Yi-Qun Li, Intematix Corp.
U.S. 7,351,486 (20080401), Direct type fuel cell power generator, Masato Akita, Takashi Yamauchi, Masahiro Takashita, Eiichi Sakaue, and Kei Matsuoka, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP).
U.S. 7,351,487 (20080401), Fuel cell, Shoji Yamashita and Shoji Kohsaka, Kyocera Corp. (JP).
U.S. 7,351,488 (20080401), Structures and fabrication techniques for solid state electrochemical devices, Steven J. Visco, Craig P. Jacobson, and Lutgard C. DeJonghe, The Regents of the University of California.
U.S. 7,351,489 (20080401), Fuel cell unit, Yuusuke Sato, Kaname Miyazaki, Eiichi Sakaue, Kei Matsuoka, and Atsushi Sadamoto, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP).
U.S. 7,351,490 (20080401), Fuel cell, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Tadashi Nishiyama, and Takaki Nakagawa, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).
U.S. 7,351,491 (20080401), Supporting electrodes for solid oxide fuel cells and other electrochemical devices, Vincent L. Sprenkle, Nathan L. Canfield, Kerry Meinhardt, and Jeffry W. Stevenson, Battelle Memorial Institute.
U.S. 7,351,492 (20080401), Solid oxide type fuel cell-use electrode support substrate and production method therefor, Masatoshi Shimomura, Teruhisa Nagashima, and Kazuo Hata, Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd. (JP).
U.S. 7,351,775 (20080401), Ion conductive membrane made from a block copolymer and methods of making a block copolymer, Gerhard Maier, Günther G. Scherer, and Chong-Kyu Shin, General Motors Corp.
U.S. 7,352,559 (20080401), Carbon nanotube devices and uses therefor, Chien-Min Sung (TW).
U.S. 7,353,696 (20080408), Apparatus for measuring methanol concentration, Xiaobing Luo, Hye-jung Cho, Jae-yong Lee, and Sang-kyun Kang, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).
U.S. 7,353,982 (20080408), Diffusion bonding for metallic membrane joining with metallic module, Anwu Li, Membrane Reactor Technologies Ltd. (CA).
U.S. 7,354,461 (20080408), Solid fuels for fuel cells, Laszlo T. Nemeth, Anil R. Oroskar, Kurt M. Vanden Bussche, Gavin P. Towler, and Rusty M. Pittman, UOP LLC.
U.S. 7,354,463 (20080408), Apparatus and methods for producing hydrogen, W. Spencer Wheat, Hongqiao Sun, Bhaskar Balasubramanian, and Vesna R. Mirkovic, Texaco Inc.
U.S. 7,354,464 (20080408), Apparatus and method for producing hydrogen, Dean A. Kenefake, W. Spencer Wheat, Hongqiao Sun, Bhaskar Balasubramanian, Vesna R. Mirkovic, and Daniel G. Casey, Texaco Inc.
U.S. 7,354,465 (20080408), Device for cooling and humidifying reformate, Jian Lian Zhao and William F. Northrop, Nuvera Fuel Cells, Inc.
U.S. 7,354,471 (20080408), Coated silver-containing particles, method and apparatus of manufacture, and silver-containing devices made therefrom, Mark J. Hampden-Smith, Toivo T. Kodas, Quint H. Powell, Daniel J. Skamser, James Caruso, and Clive D. Chandler, Cabot Corp.
U.S. 7,354,533 (20080408), Electrically conductive thermoset composition, method for the preparation thereof, and articles derived therefrom, Gary William Yeager, Manuel Cavazos, Hua Guo, Glen David Merfeld, John Rude, Erich Otto Teutsch, and Kenneth Paul Zarnoch, General Electric Co.
U.S. 7,354,545 (20080408), Substrate-supported process for manufacturing microfibrous fuel cells, Ray R. Eshraghi, Martin E. Ketterer, and Yongchao Si, Microcell Corp.
U.S. 7,354,562 (20080408), Simultaneous shift-reactive and adsorptive process to produce hydrogen, David Hon Sing Ying, Shankar Nataraj, Jeffrey Raymond Hufton, Jianguo Xu, Rodney John Allam, and Sarah Jane Dulley, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
U.S. 7,354,566 (20080408), Fuel gas production method and apparatus, Hikaru Okada, Hiroshi Machida, and Nobuyoshi Yoshida, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP) and Sumitomo Seika Chemicals Co., Ltd. (JP).
U.S. 7,354,626 (20080408), Method for increasing fiber density in electrostatic flocking, Charles J. Patrissi, Russell R. Bessette, Louis G. Carreiro, Yong K. Kim, Thomas M. Arruda, and Craig M. Deschenes, The United States of America.
U.S. 7,354,668 (20080408), Operation state determining apparatus and method for fuel cell, Nobuyuki Orihashi and Masaaki Kondo, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).
U.S. 7,354,669 (20080408), Operation method and purging system for a hydrogen demand/delivery unit in a fuel cell system, Ralph T. J. Hobmeyr and Dirk M. Wexel, General Motors Corp.
U.S. 7,354,670 (20080408), Fuel cell with fuel gas adjustment mechanism, Naoyuki Enjoji, Hideaki Kikuchi, and Yuichiro Kosaka, Honda Giken Kosyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).
U.S. 7,354,671 (20080408), Fuel cell system having secondary cell, Tetsuhiro Ishikawa, Tsuyoshi Yano, Tadaichi Matsumoto, Katsuhiko Nishiyama, and Hiroshi Yoshida, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).
U.S. 7,354,673 (20080408), Fuel cell system and method of controlling the same fuel cell system, Nobuo Fujita, Kimihide Horio, Tadaichi Matsumoto, Naohiro Yoshida, Kenji Kurita, Shinya Sakaguchi, and Hiroaki Mori, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP), DENSO Corp. (JP), and Toyota Technical Development Corp. (JP).
U.S. 7,354,674 (20080408), Electrode structure for stacked alkaline fuel cells, Jiri Nor, Astris Energi Inc. (CA).
U.S. 7,354,675 (20080408), Apparatus and method for maintaining compression of the active area in an electrochemical cell, Trent M. Molter, Lawrence C. Moulthrop Jr., Jason K. Shiepe, A. John Speranza, and Robert H. Byron Jr., Proton Energy Systems, Inc.
U.S. 7,354,676 (20080408), Cell body for fuel cell and method of manufacturing the same, Naoki Hara, Itaru Shibata, and Makoto Uchiyama, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).
U.S. 7,354,679 (20080408), Ion conductive random copolymers, Shuguang Cao, Jian Ping Chen, Thomas Jeanes, Kie Hyun Nam, David Olmeijer, and Helen Xu, Polyfuel, Inc.
U.S. 7,354,882 (20080408), Carbon monoxide removing catalyst and production process for the same as well as carbon monoxide removing apparatus, Takashi Amano, Atsushi Takumi, Shugou Zhang, and Hiroshi Tabata, Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha (JP) and Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).
U.S. 7,355,395 (20080408), Method and apparatus for eddy current-based quality inspection of dry electrode structure, Volodymyr Redko, Volodymyr Khandetskyy, Peter Novak, Elena Shembel, and Satoshi Kohara, Enerize Corp.
U.S. 7,355,831 (20080408), Y-capacitance fault current discharge compensation for HVDC systems, Stephen Raiser, GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.
U.S. 7,357,015 (20080415), Gas concentration sensor, hydrogen purification unit using this and fuel cell system, Kiyoshi Taguchi, Takeshi Tomizawa, and Kunihiro Ukai, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).
U.S. 7,357,999 (20080415), Nanocomposite electrolyte membrane and fuel cell employing the same, Hae-kyoung Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).
U.S. 7,358,000 (20080415), Full cell stack, Takashi Komura, Narutoshi Sugita, and Shigeru Inai, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).
U.S. 7,358,001 (20080415), Process for operating a regenerative fuel cell, Patrick John Morrissey, Philip John Mitchell, Dominic Anthony Szanto, and Norman John Ward, Regenesys Technology Ltd. (GB).
U.S. 7,358,002 (20080415), Exhaust gas processing device for fuel cell, Yasushi Kanai, Hideo Numata, and Akio Yamamoto, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).
U.S. 7,358,003 (20080415), Cooling structure for fuel cell vehicle, Mitsuharu Imaseki, Yoshirou Shimoyama, and Hiroyuki Hattori, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).
U.S. 7,358,004 (20080415), Carbon black, electrocatalyst carrier formed from carbon black, and electrocatalyst and electrochemical device using carrier, Hiroshi Igarashi, Masamichi Ueda, Mitsuo Suzuki, Shushichi Yoshimura, and Shinichi Kanamaru, N E Chemcat Corp. (JP).
U.S. 7,358,005 (20080415), Methods and apparatus for isolating solid oxide fuel cells, Richard Scott Bourgeois, General Electric Co.
U.S. 7,358,006 (20080415), Electromagnetic pulse protected fuel cell power system, Peter David DeVries, Genesis FuelTech, Inc.
U.S. 7,359,790 (20080415), Apparatus for converting energy that can be operated with fuel, in particular fuel cell assembly, Ulrich Gottwick, Martin Moeller, Rainer Saliger, Kai Kroeger, and Jan-Michael Graehn, Robert Bosch GmbH (DE).
U.S. 7,359,808 (20080415), Fuel cell evaluation method and fuel cell evaluation apparatus, Hiroshi Okuda, ESPEC Corp. (JP).
U.S. 7,360,395 (20080422), Gas sensor, Takashi Sasaki, Takashi Saito, Akihiro Suzuki, and Hidetoshi Oishi, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).
U.S. 7,360,396 (20080422), Gas sensor and fuel cell system and automobile employing the same, Rihito Shoji, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).
U.S. 7,360,446 (20080422), Ceramic oscillation flow meter having cofired piezoresistive sensors, Steve X. Dai and Stephen R. Samms, Motorola, Inc.
U.S. 7,361,065 (20080422), Connector assembly for conductive plates, Douglas John Hardy, Alexandra L. M. Spitler, and John Wesley Hall, Tyco Electronics Corp.
U.S. 7,361,199 (20080422), Combined water gas shift reactor/carbon dioxide adsorber for use in a fuel cell system, Craig S. Gittleman and Ramesh Gupta, General Motors Corp.
U.S. 7,361,211 (20080422), Moisture exchange module having a bundle of moisturepermeable hollow fibre membranes, Gerhard Berger, Gert Hinsenkamp, Jens Intorp, Patrick Mangold, Jochen Schaefer, Sven Schnetzler, Wolfgang Weger, and Norbert Wiesheu, Daimler AG (DE).
U.S. 7,361,213 (20080422), Borazine-boron nitride hybrid hydrogen storage system, Chaitanya K. Narula, J. Michael Simonson, Leon Maya, and Robert T. Paine, UT-Battelle, LLC.
U.S. 7,361,420 (20080422), Structure, magnetic recording medium, and method of producing the same, Nobuhiro Yasui, Ryoko Horie, and Toru Den, Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).
U.S. 7,361,423 (20080422), Fuel cell system and method for discharging reaction gas from fuel cell, Kuniaki Ojima, Shinji Yoshikawa, Yuji Matsumoto, Junji Uehara, and Kenichiro Ueda, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).
U.S. 7,361,424 (20080422), Solid polymer MEMS-based fuel cells, Alan F. Jankowski and Jeffrey D. Morse, The Regents of the University of California.
U.S. 7,361,425 (20080422), Fuel cell, Keigo Ikezoe, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP).
U.S. 7,361,426 (20080422), Surface structure for enhancing catalyst reactivity and method of manufacturing thereof, Alfred I-Tsung Pan, Hewlett-Packard Development Co., LP.
U.S. 7,361,729 (20080422), Ion-conducting sulfonated polymeric materials, James E. McGrath, Michael Hickner, Feng Wang, and Yu-Seung Kim, Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.
U.S. 7,362,073 (20080422), Dynamic fuel cell system management controller, John Edward Lecky, MTI MicroFuel Cells, Inc.
U.S. 7,363,110 (20080422), Gasket with curved configuration at peripheral edge, Brian K. Revill, Michael F. Dutton, Keith A. Stanley, and Alan R. Naylor, Ineos Chlor Enterprises Ltd. (GB).
U.S. 7,363,775 (20080429), Use of Z-pipes in a liquid hydrogen tank, Rainer Pechtold, General Motors Corp.
U.S. 7,363,949 (20080429), Hydrogen station, method of charging hydrogen, and vehicle, Hidehito Kubo, Yoshihiro Isogai, and Daigoro Mori, Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki (JP) and Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).
U.S. 7,363,965 (20080429), Onboard hydrogen storage unit with heat transfer system for use in a hydrogen powered vehicle, Vitaliy Myasnikov, Rosa Young, Yang Li, and Stanford R. Ovshinsky, Ovonic Hydrogen Systems LLC.
U.S. 7,364,810 (20080429), Combined energy storage and fuel generation with reversible fuel cells, K. R. Sridhar, and Matthias Gottmann, Bloom Energy Corp.
U.S. 7,364,811 (20080429), Fuel Cell, Kentaro Tomioka, Kei Matsuoka, Hiroaki Hirazawa, Yuusuke Sato, and Eiichi Sakaue, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP).
U.S. 7,364,812 (20080429), Multi-function solid oxide fuel cell bundle and method of making the same, Owen S. Taylor and Gregory E. Zymboly, Pittsburgh Electric Engines, Inc.
U.S. 7,364,813 (20080429), Ink for forming catalyst layer, and electrode and membrane-electrode assembly using the same, Yasushi Sugawara, Junji Morita, Takeshi Yonamine, and Yasuo Takebe, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).
U.S. 7,364,814 (20080429), Separator of a fuel cell and a manufacturing method thereof, Hiromichi Nakata, Masayoshi Yokoi, Kenji Shimoda, and Noboru Takayanagi, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).
U.S. 7,364,815 (20080429), Method of preserving fuel cell membrane electrode assembly, Takashi Nakagawa, Masatoshi Teranishi, and Yoichiro Tsuji, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).
U.S. 7,364,912 (20080429), Controlling the flow of hydrogen and ammonia from a hydrogen generator during a breakthrough with hydrated copper(II) chloride trap, Jeffrey A. Schmidt, Franklin Earl Lynch, and John S. Wilkes.
U.S. 7,365,100 (20080429), Compositions of suspended non-aggregated carbon nanotubes, methods of making the same, and uses thereof, Cynthia A. Kuper and Mike Kuzma, Nanodynamics, Inc.
U.S. 7,365,102 (20080429), Process for pre-reforming hydrocarbon fuels, Jeffrey G. Weissman, Delphi Technologies, Inc.
U.S. 7,365,121 (20080429), Highly conductive thermoplastic composites for rapid production of fuel cell bipolar plates, Jianhua Huang, Donald G. Baird, and James E. McGrath, Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.
U.S. 7,365,122 (20080429), Fluoroelastomer composition, Yoshifumi Kojima, Atsushi Koga, and Kenichi Fujimoto, NOK Corp. (JP).
