Chemistry: electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process inventions 06/07

20070148514 - Fuel cells: Fuel cell systems, as well as related components and methods, are disclosed.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070148515 - Fuel composition for fuel cell and fuel cell using the same: Provided is a fuel composition for a fuel cell including a first fuel which generates protons and electrons, and hydrogen gas. Also, provided is a fuel cell using the fuel composition. Using the fuel composition for a fuel cell, catalyst activation can be increased. Also, a fuel cell having high... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070148519 - Compound, solid polymer electrolyte membrane, electrolyte membrane-electrode assembly, and solid polymer fuel cell: An unsaturated compound including a urethane bond in a main chain and a sulfonic acid group, a phosphoric acid group, an alkylsulfonic acid group, or an alkylphosphoric acid group on a benzene ring in a side chain is provided. In addition, a solid polymer electrolyte membrane containing a compound prepared... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070148535 - Electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus includes: a case body having a battery storing portion formed of a concave portion whose shape is approximately corresponding to an external shape of a battery unit and a sliding member slidably supported on a surface of the case body on the opposite side to the battery... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070148502 - Reactor: A reactor causing reaction of a reactant includes a plurality of substrates provided with top and bottom substrates having provided therein recessed portions for forming closely sealed regions and a plurality of intermediate substrates having provided therein at least openings that communicate with each other, a reactor main body portion... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070148505 - Humidifying a reactant flow of a fuel cell system: A technique that is usable with a fuel cell includes generating a humidified reactant flow. The technique includes measuring a rate of condensate production from the reactant flow and controlling the generation of the humidified reactant flow in response to the measured rate of condensate production.... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070148504 - Maintaining a fluid level in a heat exchanger of a fuel cell system: A technique includes providing a fluid to a heat exchanger to produce a gas. The technique includes humidifying a flow of a fuel cell system with the gas and regulating a level of the fluid in the heat exchanger based on a temperature of the gas.... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070148506 - Method of calculating fuel concentration in a liquid fuel cell: A method of calculating fuel concentration in a liquid fuel cell comprises the following steps. One or more fuels with different known concentrations are separately provided for the liquid fuel cell such that the liquid fuel cell performs electrochemical reactions and generates power with various conditions having different known concentrations... Agent: G. Link Co., Ltd.

20070148503 - Method of cooling stack and solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell: A stack of a polymer electrolyte fuel cell is immersed, in a stack container case, in a liquid coolant such as an organic solvent, and the stack is operated in this state. The stack whose temperature has risen by heat energy produced by the operation is cooled by the liquid... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070148507 - Switching modes of operation of a fuel cell: A technique that is usable with a fuel cell stack includes routing an anode exhaust of the fuel cell stack to an anode exhaust line. Based on a mode operation of the fuel cell stack, communication is selectively established between a cathode chamber of the fuel cell stack and the... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070148508 - Reactor purge system and method: Purge systems and methods are disclosed for flushing unreacted materials and byproducts from a reactor. In one embodiment, the reactor houses a hydrogen generation catalyst and the system comprises a hydrogen generation fuel cartridge containing a reservoir that stores water which may be recovered from the exhaust of a fuel... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070148509 - Fuel cell electric power generating system: A fuel cell electric power generation system using air as both a coolant and an oxidant comprises an electric power generation subsystem, an air filter subsystem, a power and control electronics unit (PEU) subsystem comprising a DC/DC converter, and an air fan subsystem. The subsystems are arranged such that air... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070148510 - Gas analyzing apparatus and method: A gas analyzing apparatus for analyzing gas composition in a multi-gas stream is disclosed. The gas analyzing apparatus includes a plurality of sensors adapted to sense a characteristic of the gases and a microprocessor connected to the plurality of sensors and adapted to determine actual rates of flow of the... Agent: Tung & Associates

20070148512 - Fuel cell system: A fuel cell system that has a fuel cell stack with a plurality of laminated cells, each of the laminated cells includes an electrolyte membrane interposed between a fuel electrode receiving a supply of fuel gas and an oxidizing agent electrode receiving a supply of oxidizing agent gas. A fuel... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070148511 - Voltage transducer for a fuel cell: A voltage transducer for a fuel cell is a device to control steady outputs of voltage and current by means of electronic circuit, which is capable of regulating instantaneous voltage and current at the time of converting output of a fuel cell to a load for the afterward circuit stages... Agent: G. Link Co., Ltd.

20070148513 - Thermally integrated sofc system: A thermally integrated fuel cell system includes a stack zone, a burner zone and a low temperature zone. The fuel is combined with steam and passed sequentially through a primary reformer and a secondary reformer. Air is split into two parallel streams and preheated in a low temperature heat exchanger.... Agent: Edward Yoo C/o Bennett Jones

20070148517 - Assemblies for electrochemical devices: Assemblies or MEA devices (Membrane Electrode Assembly) comprising a membrane and two electrocatalytic layers on each side thereof, wherein: the area of each of the two electrocatalytic layers is lower than that of the membrane; on each of the two sides of the ionomeric membrane there is at least one... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070148516 - Solid oxide fuel cell stack: The invention relates to a solid oxide fuel cell stack having individual cells arranged above one another, which are each arranged, if required, with contact layers between a top shell and a bottom shell gas-tightly connected with the top shell in the edge region, as well as having gas distributor... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070148520 - Novel metal (iii) -chromium-phosphate complex and use thereof: Disclosed herein are a metal(III)-chromium-phosphate complex represented by a formula of M(III)xCr(HPO4)y(H2PO4)z and the use thereof. More particularly, disclosed are an organic/inorganic composite electrolyte membrane comprising said complex, an electrode comprising said complex, a membrane-electrode assembly (MEA) comprising said organic/inorganic composite electrolyte membrane and/or electrode, and a fuel cell comprising... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070148518 - Polymer electrolyte and use thereof: An aromatic polymer electrolyte that when directly used in a methanol fuel cell, excels in methanol shutoff, etc. There is provided a polymer electrolyte comprising polymer main chains containing oxygen elements and/or sulfur elements and aromatic carbon rings and, directly bonded to some or all of the aromatic carbon rings... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070148521 - Single cell for a solid oxide fuel cell: A single cell for SOFC operating at low temperatures is provided, including a first solid electrolyte with oxide ion conductivity at 800° C. of 0.015 S/cm or more and bending strength of 600 MPa or more, a fuel electrode and bonded to one side of the first electrolyte, comprised of... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070148523 - Interconnection of bundled solid oxide fuel cells: A system and method for electrically interconnecting a plurality of fuel cells to provide dense packing of the fuel cells. Each one of a plurality of fuel cells has a plurality of discrete electrical connection points along an outer surface. Electrical connections are made directly between the discrete electrical connection... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20070148522 - Solid oxide fuel cell with sealed structure: This invention relates to the presence of slightly or non-porous zones (11) in the electrode layer (10) around gas inlets (2), in order to improve the leak tightness between the different individual cells (5) making up a fuel cell (1) with a plane geometry. Nested contact (18, 22) between the... Agent: Anderson, Kill & Olick, P.C.

20070148524 - Gasket: In order to provide a gasket which has a good handling property as a gasket used for a fuel battery or a gasket for an HDD, can be easily integrated with the other end mounting member even in the case that the other end mounting member such as a separator... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070148525 - Gasket: In order to provide a gasket which has a good handling property as a gasket used for a fuel battery or a gasket for an HDD, can be easily integrated with the other end mounting member even in the case that the other end mounting member such as a separator... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070148528 - Fuel cell generating system: A fuel cell generating system can reduce or prevent the degradation and increase the durability of a fuel cell main body without increasing the volume of the fuel cell generating system includes a fuel cell main body comprises an electrolyte membrane, an anode electrode and a cathode electrode disposed on... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070148527 - Fuel cell planarly integrated on a monocrystalline silicon chip and process of fabrication: A fuel cell is entirely fabricated on a single monocrystalline silicon substrate, and substantially overcomes leak proofing and wafer bonding difficulties and criticalities while ensuring an intrinsic sturdiness of the planarly integrated functional structure of the fuel cell. The integrated fuel cell is formed in an oxidized porous silicon region... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070148526 - Fuel cell water management system and method: Systems and methods for transporting accumulated water in a fuel cell system are disclosed. Briefly described, in one aspect, a system comprises a fuel cell flow field plate with at least one channel disposed on a surface of the fuel cell flow field plate, and at least one water management... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070148529 - Cathode material for a high-temperature fuel cell (sofc) and a cathode that can be produced therefrom: The invention relates to a cathode material, particularly for use in a high-temperature fuel cell, comprising substoichiometric Ln1-x-yMyFe1-zCzO3-δ, with 0.02≦×x≦0.05, 0.1≦y≦0.6, 0.1≦z≦0.3, 0≦δ≦0.25 and with Ln=lanthanides, M=strontium or calcium and C=cobalt or copper. By using a particular production method, in which this cathode material having a specified grain size is... Agent: The Firm Of Karl F Ross

20070148530 - Apparatus and substrate structure for growing carbon nanotubes: The present invention provides an apparatus for growing carbon nanotubes, comprising a reaction chamber for receiving a substrate in a cylindrical form; and optionally a folding device for folding the substrate into a cylindrical form, which is arranged adjacent to the reaction chamber. A substrate structure in a reaction chamber... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070148531 - Catalyst electrode, production process thereof, and polymer electrolyte fuel cell: A catalyst electrode is constituted by a catalyst material and a porous carbon frame for carrying the catalyst material. The catalyst material has a structure comprising whiskers or a structure comprising flaky parts. The porous carbon frame has pores having a pore diameter of 0.5 μm or more and 10... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070148532 - Method of adjusting soc for battery and battery management system using the same: A state of charge (SOC) compensation method of a battery and a battery management system using the same. A charge/discharge current of the battery is used for calculating the SOC and an SOC voltage that is a value in an OCV table, a rheobasic voltage is calculated, an error in... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070148533 - Batteries: Batteries are disclosed. In some embodiments, a battery can include a housing including an aperture having an area of at most 0.008 square inch, an anode in the housing, a cathode in the housing, and a membrane. The membrane can cover at least a portion of the aperture, and can... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070148534 - Portable electronic device with operation mode determined in accordance with power consumption and method thereof: A portable electronic device with an operation mode determined in accordance with power consumption and an operation mode switching method thereof are proposed. The method examines the voltage required by different systems to control every power system independently. By examining the capacity of a battery cell unit and comparing the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070148536 - Assemblable spacer for preparation of battery module: Disclosed herein is a spacer including battery receiving parts formed at opposite major surfaces of a frame, respectively, the battery receiving parts having semi-cylindrical inner structures corresponding to outer surfaces of the cylindrical batteries, and assemblable coupling parts formed at opposite sides of the battery receiving parts, respectively, the assemblable... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070148537 - Electronic apparatus: According to one embodiment, there is provided an electronic apparatus including: a case including a first opening, and a second opening adjacent to the first opening; a first lid that is detachably attached to the case and configured to close the first opening, the first lid including a first edge... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070148538 - Battery separator and method of making same: A battery separator comprises a multi-layered film, individual layers of said film having been bonded together by heat and pressure, having a peel strength of greater than or equal to 40 grams per inch (1.6 g/mm) and a thickness of ≦25 microns. A method for making a battery separator comprises... Agent: Hammer & Hanf, PC

20070148539 - Portable self-contained electric power tool: A portable self-contained electric power tool unit, includes at least three distinct sub-assemblies. The tool is characterised in that the second sub-assembly (3) may be carried by the user and includes a lithium-ion or lithium-polymer electrochemical battery (5) formed by combination of more than four cells (6) in series, each... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070148541 - Battery: A battery capable of obtaining a high energy density and obtaining superior cycle characteristics is provided. The thickness of a cathode active material layer is from 100 μm to 130 μm. The thickness of an anode active material layer is from 85 μm to 120 μm, and the volume density... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070148540 - Nonaqueous electrolyte for secondary battery and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery: A nonaqueous electrolyte for a secondary battery is disclosed which contains at least 10% by volume of methyl difluoroacetate, based on a total volume of a solvent. The nonaqueous electrolyte uses, as a mixed solute, at least one A electrolyte salt selected from LiPF6 and LiBF4 and at least one... Agent: Kubovcik & Kubovcik

20070148542 - Battery electrode design and a flat stack battery cell design and methods of making same: A battery electrode design and a flat stack battery cell design preferably include structure and/or manufacturing steps whereby a battery electrode plate has a frame, and a grid-array of elements disposed interiorly of the frame. A first collector pole access channel is disposed interiorly of the frame and orthogonal with... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070148543 - Cathode active material for rechargeable lithium battery, rechargeable lithium battery including the same, and method for preparing rechargeable lithium battery: A positive active material for rechargeable lithium battery includes an active material that can reversibly intercalate and deintercalate lithium; and polyether modified silicone oil supported on the active material. The positive active material is not deteriorated during charge and discharge, and has high-capacity, an excellent cycle characteristic and good safety.... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20070148544 - Silicon-containing alloys useful as electrodes for lithium-ion batteries: An electrode composition for a lithium ion battery having the formula SixSnqMyCz where q, x, y, and z represent atomic percent values and (a) (q+x)>2y+z; (b) q≧0, (c) z≧0; and (d) M is one or more metals selected from manganese, molybdenum, niobium, tungsten, tantalum, iron, copper, titanium, vanadium, chromium, nickel,... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070148545 - Electrode materials and lithium battery systems: A material comprising a lithium titanate comprising a plurality of primary particles and secondary particles, wherein the average primary particle size is about 1 nm to about 500 nm and the average secondary particle size is about 1 μm to about 4 μm. In some embodiments the lithium titanate is... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070148546 - Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery: The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery of the present invention uses, as the positive electrode active material, a mixture of a lithium-containing transition metal oxide LiaNixMnyO2 (wherein a, x, and y respectively satisfy the following relations: 1<a≦1.5; 0.5≦x+y≦1; 0<x<1; and 0<y<1) containing nickel and manganese as transition metals and having the... Agent: Kubovcik & Kubovcik

20070148547 - Modification of an anode material and a preperation method thereof: A modification of an anode material, which is used as a carbonaceous material of an anode of a Lithium-ion secondary battery, is characterized in that the surface of the carbonaceous material is plated with Sn—P or Ni—Sn—P nanoparticles. The preparation method comprises the steps of mixing a reductant solution containing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070148548 - Non-aqueous electrolytic secondary battery: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode 11 made of graphite powder and a negative electrode 13 made of lithium metal or a lithium-intercalatable/deintercalatable material. The positive electrode 11 and the negative electrode 13 are faced to each other with an electrolyte, containing a lithium salt, interposed in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070148549 - Rechargeable lithium battery and method for manufacturing the same: A rechargeable lithium battery according to the present invention includes a positive electrode including a positive active material being capable of intercalating and deintercalating lithium; a negative electrode including a negative active material being capable of intercalating and deintercalating lithium; and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode includes a lithium-containing... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20070148551 - Cylindrical alkaline battery: In a cylindrical alkaline battery (10) which uses a mercury-free alloy with zinc as the main ingredient as an active material of its anode gel (18) and copper or an alloy with copper as the main ingredient as its anode electron collector (25), the surface of the anode electron collector... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070148550 - Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery: Low-temperature charge-discharge performance is improved in a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that employs flake graphite as a negative electrode active material. A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode containing a positive electrode active material capable of intercalating and deintercalating lithium ions, a negative electrode containing a negative electrode... Agent: Kubovcik & Kubovcik

20070148552 - Microporous membrane made from polyolefin: Disclosed is a microporous membrane made from a polyolefin wherein the thickness is 1-30 μm, the porosity is 30-60%, the air permeability is 50-250 sec/100 cc, the puncture strength is 3.5-20.0 N/20 μm, the maximum pore diameter determined by a bubble point method is 0.08-0.20 μm, and the ratio between... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070148553 - Chemically stable solid lithium ion conductor: The present invention concerns chemically stable solid lithium ion conductors, processes for their production and their use in batteries, accumulators, supercaps and electrochromic devices.... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070148554 - Non-aqueous electrolytic solution and lithium secondary battery: The present invention provides a lithium secondary battery improved in safety from overcharge as well as cycle characteristics. A non-aqueous electrolytic solution is used for the lithium secondary battery. In the non-aqueous electrolytic solution, an electrolyte salt is dissolved in a non-aqueous solvent. The non-aqueous solvent comprises two or more... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070148555 - Nonaqueous electrolyte composition and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery using the same: Disclosed is a nonaqueous electrolyte composition obtained by dissolving an electrolyte salt in an organic solvent. This nonaqueous electrolyte composition is characterized in that the organic solvent is a mixed organic solvent containing 20-35 volume % of ethylene carbonate (a), 35-45 volume % of ethyl methyl carbonate (b), 15-35 volume... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070141419 - Cold start valve structure for fuel cell vehicle: The present invention provides a cold start valve structure in a fuel cell vehicle, comprising: (a) an inlet pipe having an elliptical valve seat; (b) an outlet pipe arranged to be parallel to the inlet pipe; and (c) a valve body connecting to the inlet pipe and the outlet pipe... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070141403 - Portable battery unit featuring two standard ac type sockets, a carry handle, on/off switch, adapter/battery recharge socket, rechargeable battery, and inverter circuit: An enclosure or casing that will contain a rechargeable battery which can be inserted from the side. An adapter and a battery recharge socket is attached to the side of the casing allowing for stored power. The back panel has AC type sockets which will operate anything that use AC... Agent: Willis Haywood

20070141404 - Detecting leakage from a capacitor of a fuel cell system: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack, energy storage and a control subsystem. The energy storage supplements a power that is provided by the fuel cell stack, and the energy storage is coupled to the fuel cell stack and has a voltage. The control subsystem monitors the energy... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070141405 - Method of making a membrane electrode assembly comprising a vapor barrier layer, a gas diffusion layer, or both: Methods of producing an electrochemical conversion assembly comprising an electrochemical conversion cell are provided. The electrochemical conversion cells which comprises a membrane electrode assembly, first and second flowfield portions defined on opposite sides of the membrane electrode assembly, and, at least one vapor barrier layer disposed between the membrane electrode... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20070141407 - Fuel cell exhaust gas burner: A technique that is usable with a fuel cell stack includes combining a fuel flow with an oxidant in a mixer to create a substantially funnel-shaped flow, which is ignited.... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070141406 - Technique and apparatus to detect carbon monoxide poisoning of a fuel cell stack: A technique that is usable with a fuel cell stack includes determining a cell voltage profile of the fuel cell stack and determining an average cell voltage of the fuel cell stack. The technique includes detecting carbon monoxide poisoning of the fuel cell stack based on the cell voltage profile... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070141408 - Supplying and recirculating fuel in a fuel cell system: A technique that is usable with a fuel cell stack includes providing an ejector to combine a first fuel flow from a fuel source with an anode exhaust flow from a fuel cell stack to produce a second fuel flow to an anode inlet plenum of the fuel cell stack.... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070141409 - Fuel cell system and control method thereof: Disclosed are a fuel cell system and a control method thereof. The fuel cell system comprises: a main fuel cell stack (6) that an anode (2) and a cathode (4) are arranged in a state that an electrolyte membrane is interposed therebetween; a fuel supplying unit connected with the anode... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070141410 - Direct oxidation fuel cell system: This invention relates to a direct oxidation fuel cell system in which a liquid organic fuel or an aqueous solution thereof is supplied from a fuel tank to the anode of a fuel cell. This fuel cell system includes a discharge path for discharging a fluid that comprises gas and... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070141415 - Fuel cell apparatus and associated method: An apparatus including a housing having walls is provided. The walls of the housing each have inner surfaces and outer surfaces. The walls may include apertures extending from the inner surface to the outer surface. The inner surfaces of the walls define a volume. The volume includes an electrode. The... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070141414 - Fuel cell having micro sensors: A fuel cell having micro sensors is disclosed. It has a pair of bipolar plates and a catalytic portion. About each bipolar plate, it has an inner surface and an outer surface. There are a fluid inlet, a fluid outlet, a channel, one or more micro sensors and several signal... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070141413 - Fuel cell sensors and methods: Control systems, sensors and methods for controlling the fuel concentration in a fuel cell or a fuel cell stack are provided. In certain examples, the control system may be configured to detect a performance degradation, and the fuel concentration provided to the fuel cell may be adjusted in response to... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20070141411 - Maximizing energy storage life in a fuel cell system using active temperature compensation: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack, energy storage and a control subsystem. The energy storage supplements a power that is provided by the fuel cell stack. The energy storage is coupled to the fuel cell stack and has a voltage. The control system regulates a peak of... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070141412 - Sensorless relative humidity control in a fuel cell application: A technique for determining the relative humidity of the cathode input airflow to a fuel cell stack that eliminates the need for a dew-point sensor. The cathode input airflow is humidified by a water vapor transfer unit that uses water in the cathode exhaust gas. The technique employs an algorithm... Agent: Cary W. Brooks General Motors Corporation

20070141416 - Floating base load hybrid strategy for a hybrid fuel cell vehicle to increase the durability of the fuel cell system: A fuel cell system employing a floating base load hybrid strategy for reducing fast voltage transients of a FCPM. A power request signal is applied to an average power calculation processor that calculates the average power requested over a predetermined previous period of time. A weighting function processor provides a... Agent: Cary W. Brooks General Motors Corporation

20070141417 - Power supply system and control method thereof: There is provided a power generation system. A chemical reacting section receives a power generation fuel and reforms the power generation fuel to generate a power generation gas containing hydrogen. A power generating section receives the power generation gas, reacts a part of the power generation gas to generate electrical... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070141418 - Fuel cell system control device: In order to reliably avoid freezing in the generation stop state during intermittent operation, in the control device of the present invention that controls a fuel cell system to operate intermittently by switching between the generation state and the generation stop state of a fuel cell, it is determined whether... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070141421 - Device and method to release the overpressure of a fuel cell coolant tank: A device and method to convert residual hydrogen present in a fuel cell cooling system into water. An oxygen-bearing fluid is supplied to the cooling system from a source that also has elevated moisture levels to minimize the likelihood that the oxygen-bearing fluid will dry out or otherwise deplete the... Agent: Cary W. Brooks General Motors Corporation

20070141420 - Fuel cell thermal management system and method: A fuel cell thermal management system (10) is provided for maintaining a fuel cell stack (12) within a desired operating temperature range. The system (10) includes a thermal storage reservoir (14), a radiator (16), and a mixing valve (18). Heat from the fuel cell stack (12) is rejected to the... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20070141422 - Fuel cell component having an electrolyte dopant: The present disclosure is directed to a fuel cell component having a cathode including a ceramic material that includes an A-site deficient, perovskite crystal structure and a cation species bonded to oxygen. The fuel cell component further includes an anode and an electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode and the... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20070141423 - Tubular electrochemical reactor cell and electrochemical reactor system which is composed of the cell: The present invention provides a tubular electrochemical reactor cell capable of realizing reduced size and high efficiency, and an electrochemical reactor system using the same, and in a tubular electrochemical reactor cell and an electrochemical reactor system composed thereof, the tubular cell is a tubular cell electrochemical reactor cell in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070141424 - Solid oxide fuel cell and stack configuration: A fuel cell unit includes an array of solid oxide fuel cell tube sheets having porous metallic exterior surfaces, interior fuel cell layers, and interior surfaces, and at least one header in operable communication with the array of solid oxide fuel cell tube sheets for directing a first reactive gas... Agent: Ut-battelle, LLC Office Of Intellectual Property

20070141427 - Electrolyte polymer for fuel cells, process for its production, electrolyte membrane and membrane/electrode assembly: An electrolyte polymer for fuel cells made of a perfluorocarbon polymer having ion exchange groups (which may contain etheric oxygen atoms), characterized in that the value calculated by dividing an absorption area SCH derived mainly from a C—H bond in the range of from 3,100 cm−1 to 2,800 cm−1 by... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070141425 - Liquid fluoropolymer composition and process for producing crosslinked fluorochemical:

20070141426 - Polybenzoxazine-based compound, electrolyte membrane including the same, and fuel cell employing the electrolyte membrane: A crosslinked object of a polybenzoxazine-based compound formed of a polymerized resultant of a first monofunctional benzoxazine-based monomer or a second multifunctional benzoxazine-based monomer with a crosslinkable compound, an electrolyte membrane including the crosslinked object, a method of preparing the electrolyte membrane, and a fuel cell employing the electrolyte membrane... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070141431 - Fuel cell closed structure: A galvanic cell with a closed structure is provided. The cell may include a galvanic cell unit having a metal hydride anode, separators positioned on opposite sides of the metal hydride anode, oxygen electrodes positioned adjacent to the separators on sides opposite to the metal hydride anode, insulator plates positioned... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070141430 - Gas scrubber and method related thereto: A galvanic cell utilizing a gas scrubber is provided. The galvanic cell may include a galvanic cell unit and a gas scrubber comprising an active material layer, a resistance coil in contact with the active material layer, a first shutter positioned between the active material layer and ambient air, a... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070141428 - Preventing backfeeding of current to a fuel cell stack from energy storage: A fuel cell system that includes a fuel cell stack, and energy storage that is coupled to the fuel cell stack, and a switch that is coupled between the energy storage and the fuel cell stack. The fuel cell system also includes a controller to measure at least one current... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070141434 - Sanitizing device and associated method using electrochemically produced sanitizing agents: A sanitizing device includes a sanitizing component for sanitizing a surface, liquid, gas, and/or associated surrounding environment. The sanitizing component may be an electrochemical cell having an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte component, that works in cooperation with a power source and a precursor material. The electrochemical cell, power... Agent: Ceramatec, Inc.

20070141433 - Single chamber solid oxide fuel cell with isolated electrolyte: Disclosed is a single chamber solid oxide fuel cell, in which an electrode is arranged on the same plane as an electrolyte and unit cells are integrated to one another. A high output density of the fuel cell is obtained, and a micro fuel cell for generating a high voltage... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070141429 - Storing energy in a fuel cell system: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack, a DC-to-DC converter and at least one capacitor. The fuel cell stack provides a stack voltage, and the DC-to-DC converter receives the stack voltage. The capacitor(s) are coupled between the fuel cell stack and the DC-to-DC converter.... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070141432 - Third electrode frame structure and method related thereto: A third electrode frame structure for use in a fuel cell or battery is provided. The third electrode frame structure may include a first electrode, a separator positioned on an outer perimeter of the first electrode, and a frame third electrode coupled to the separator. The separator may be positioned... Agent: Shengxian Wang

20070141435 - Fuel cell with a brazed interconnect and method of assembling the same: A fuel cell including an anode, a cathode and an electrolyte interposed between the anode and the cathode is disclosed. The fuel cell also includes an anode interconnect disposed adjacent to the anode and a brazing material disposed between the anode interconnect and the anode to bond the anode interconnect... Agent: Patrick S. Yoder Fletcher Yoder

20070141436 - Roll-good fuel cell fabrication processes, equipment, and articles produced from same: Fabricating roll-good fuel cell material involves laminating first and second bonding material webs having spaced apart windows to first and second surfaces of a fuel cell membrane web. First and second active regions of the membrane web are positioned within the respective bonding material windows. Third and fourth gasket material... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070141440 - Cylindrical structure fuel cell: A galvanic cell structure is provided. The galvanic cell structure includes an outer cylinder featuring air inlets, a cathode, an anode, a membrane separating the cathode from the anode, and an inner cylinder featuring fluid inlets that may provide a volume for storing and/or transferring fluid for use in the... Agent: Hai Yang

20070141441 - Fuel cell having composite bipolar plates: A fuel cell having composite bipolar plates mainly includes a pair of bipolar plates. Each bipolar plate has a first surface and a second surface. Each bipolar plate including a conductive plastic plate, a plastic plate fluid inlet, a plastic plate fluid outlet, and a substantially recessed channel. This metal... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070141438 - Fuel cell stack: A flow plate for a fuel cell includes an active area to communicate a reactant flow to a membrane electrode assembly. The flow plate also includes a recessed region that is substantially the same size as the active area and receives the membrane electrode assembly.... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070141442 - Fuel cell system: The invention relates to a fuel cell system having a plurality of individual fuel cells connected in series electrically, each having a cathode-electrolyte-anode unit arranged between an electrically conducting carrier element and an electrically conducting cover element, the side facing the carrier element being acted upon by a first gas... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070141437 - Removing and installing a fuel cell stack: An assembly includes a fuel cell stack, a manifold and a mechanism to slidably guide the fuel cell stack to a position at which a connection can be formed between the stack and the manifold.... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070141439 - Surface engineering of bipolar plate materials for better water management: A flow field plate or bipolar plate for a fuel cell, where a surface of the flow field plate is textured or roughened to change the surface morphology of the plate. A conductive coating is deposited on the roughened surface where the roughness of the surface of the plate increases... Agent: Cary W. Brooks General Motors Corporation

20070141444 - Fuel cell component having an electrolyte dopant: The present disclosure is directed to a fuel cell component having a cathode including a ceramic material that includes an A-site deficient, perovskite crystal structure and a cation species bonded to oxygen. The fuel cell component further includes an anode and an electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode and the... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20070141445 - Micro fuel cell: The present invention discloses a solid oxide fuel cell and method for fabricating solid oxide fuel cells using thin film processing techniques. The fuel cell comprises a cathode layer, an electrolyte layer, and an anode layer arranged in various configurations to optimize fuel cell performance.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070141443 - Solid oxide fuel cell having a buffer layer: The present disclosure is directed to a fuel cell component having a cathode that includes a lanthanum manganate material as well as channels for receiving a flow of oxygen, and a buffer layer extending along the channels through which oxygen flows. The fuel cell component also includes an anode having... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20070141446 - Fuel cell gas diffusion articles: Fuel cell gas diffusion articles containing a porous layer, as well as related components, systems, and methods, are disclosed.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070141448 - Direct-type fuel cell and direct-type fuel cell system: A direct-type fuel cell having excellent power generating characteristics even under operating conditions utilizing a high concentration fuel at low air flow rates. The anode includes an anode-side diffusion layer that faces the fuel flow channel and an anode-side catalyst layer in contact with the electrolyte membrane. The cathode includes... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070141447 - Solid oxide fuel cell with improved current collection: A solid oxide fuel cell includes a plurality of tubes, with each tube including an anode, a cathode and an electrolyte, A mechanically compliant anode current collector is associated with each tube. An interconnect portion may be attached to the anode current collector. A cathode current collector is also associated... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20070141449 - Secondary battery and pressing member: A secondary battery including an electrode assembly having a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode and a casing having an opening for receiving the electrode assembly. The casing houses the electrode assembly and has a clamping portion located at... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070141450 - Rechargeable fuel cell with double cathode: A fuel cell assembly may be provided that includes a first cathodic electrode and a second cathodic electrode; an anodic electrode positioned between the first cathodic electrode and the second cathodic electrode; a first membrane positioned between the first cathodic electrode and the anodic electrode; a second membrane positioned between... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070141451 - Housing structure for battery pack: A battery pack has a battery stack built therein. A case for the battery pack includes an upper case and a lower case. The upper case is not flat, but forms an arch shape having a curved surface. The upper case has a chamber space formed above the built-in battery... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070141454 - Battery pack: A battery pack to be mounted on a vehicle. The battery pack has a battery stack. A cooling fan, a fan relay, and a main relay (−) are disposed on one side of the battery stack. A control module, a register, a main relay (+), and a pre-charge relay are... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070141455 - Battery pack: A battery pack to be mounted in a vehicle incorporates a battery stack and a cooling fan. An air intake is formed in a side face located in the vicinity of the cooling fan. In consideration of passengers entering and exiting the vehicle, the air intake is formed as well... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070141452 - Rechargeable battery and battery module: A rechargeable battery includes an electrode assembly having a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator separating the positive terminal and the negative terminal. A casing includes a spatial area for receiving and holding the electrode assembly. A heat dissipating body is provided for receiving and holding the casing.... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070141453 - Thermal management of batteries using synthetic jets: A thermally managed power source (201) is provided herein which comprises a first battery module (203), and a first synthetic jet ejector (215) disposed on a surface of said first battery module and being adapted to direct a plurality of synthetic jets along a surface (211) of said first battery... Agent: Fortkort & Houston P.C.

20070141456 - Bipolar membrane: The embodiments of the present invention relate to a membrane assembly for use in a galvanic cell, the membrane assembly comprising an anionic layer in contact with an electrolyte base, a cationic layer in contact with an electrolyte acid and an intermediate layer separating the anionic layer and cationic layer.... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070141457 - Battery module: A battery module includes a plurality of flat batteries stacked upon one another in a thickness direction. The plurality of flat batteries each have an outer cover and plate-shaped electrode terminals connected. A power generating element is sealed within the outer cover of each of the plurality of flat batteries.... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070141458 - Battery pack: A battery pack is made up of a plurality of flat prismatic batteries arranged face to face, each battery having one electrode terminal protruding from one end face in the height direction of the battery case and this end face or a side face of the battery serving as the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070141459 - Battery module: The present invention provides to a battery module which is excellent in cooling performance of a battery and is improved in assembling easiness at low cast. A battery module 3 accommodates assembled battery blocks 20 arranged in series in an exterior case formed in an approximately hexahedral shape in parallel,... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes

20070141460 - Battery module of novel structure: Disclosed herein is a battery module having a structure in which a plurality of batteries, each having an electrode assembly mounted in a battery case made of a laminate sheet including a metal layer and a resin layer, as unit cells, are stacked one on another in the thickness direction,... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070141461 - High ionic conductivity gel polymer electrolyte for rechargeble polymber secondary battery: The present invention is directed to a gel polymer electrolyte for use in rechargeable polymer secondary batteries and a precursor composition thereof. The precursor composition can be injected into an aluminum shell of a battery cell, which undergoes in-situ heating polymerization by heating and forms a gel polymer electrolyte penetrating... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070141462 - Method and apparatus for reducing water loss: An electrochemical cell is provided. The cell may include at least one anode; at least one cathode; and an electrolyte composition contacting the anode and the cathode. The electrolyte composition may include an alkali and a hydrophilic additive having one or more functional groups effective for bonding with water.... Agent: Shengxian Wang

20070141463 - Cathode for battery: Cathodes that include an active cathode material and a binder are described. The binder includes a first polymeric material and a second material.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070141464 - Porous metal hydride electrode: An electrode for use in a fuel cell or a battery is provided. The electrode may include a porous main body that may include a metal hydride defining a pore volume effective for preventing water starvation in the fuel cell or battery. An associated method for making and/or using is... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070141465 - Lead acid battery: It is an object of the present invention to provide a lead acid battery which generates a higher power than the conventional lead acid battery does. To this end, the lead acid battery of the present invention is characterized in that electrodes are formed, each of the electrodes having a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070141466 - Alkaline battery: An alkaline battery includes: a negative electrode including a zinc or zinc alloy powder as an active material; an alkaline electrolyte; and a positive electrode. The zinc or zinc alloy powder has a specific surface area of 0.01 to 10 m2/g, and the weight ratio of the electrolyte to the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070141467 - Electrode having modal distribution of zinc-based particles: An electrode containing zinc-based particles suspended in a fluid medium is disclosed. The zinc-based particles have a multi-modal distribution, such as a bi-modal distribution, of particle sizes, particle morphologies and/or particle compositions. The electrode can be used as the anode in an alkaline battery, such as a primary alkaline battery.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070141468 - Electrodes comprising mixed active particles: A battery containing a first electrode and a second electrode, and an electrolyte for transferring ionic charge-carriers there between, wherein the first electrode contains a first electrode active material represented by the formula A2eM4kM5mM6nM7oOg, and at least one second electrode active material selected from the group consisting of active materials... Agent: Valence Technology, Inc.

20070141469 - Cathode active material and lithium ion secondary battery: A lithium ion secondary battery is provided. The battery includes a positive electrode having at least a cathode active material and a binder, a negative electrode, an electrolyte, and a separator which are arranged between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and in which an open circuit voltage per... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070141470 - Lithium ion secondary battery: A lithium ion secondary battery including a positive electrode containing an active material particle including a lithium composite oxide, wherein the lithium composite oxide is represented by LixM1-yLyO2, where 0.85≦x≦1.25, 0≦y≦0.50, M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ni and Co, and L is at... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070141471 - Lithium ion secondary cell: A lithium ion secondary cell comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a non-aqueous electrolytic solution wherein the negative electrode comprises a negative electrode active material containing a carbonaceous material having a spacing d002 of 0.3360 nm or less, a crystal size Lc in the c-axis direction of at... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070141472 - Lead acid battery having lightly gelled electrolyte: A lead acid battery having lightly gelled electrolyte is provided. The lead acid battery includes a plurality of alternating positive plates and negative plates, a plurality of separators sandwiched in between the positive plates and the negative plates, and a lightly gelled electrolyte including dilute sulfuric acid and silica particles... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070141473 - Integrated membrane electrode assembly and method related thereto: An electrode assembly for use in a galvanic cell is provided. The galvanic cell may include a first electrode, a gel polymer adhesive electrolyte in contact with the first electrode, a polymer tri-phase electrolyte layer, a separator coupled between the gel polymer adhesive electrolyte and the polymer tri-phase electrolyte layer,... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070141474 - Copolymer with phosphoryl group and molded articles of same:

20070141475 - Non-aqueous electrolyte and lithium secondary battery using the same: The present invention relates to a nonaqueous electrolyte solution containing new additives and a lithium secondary battery including the same. More particularly, the invention relates to a nonaqueous electrolyte solution containing a lithium salt, an electrolyte compound, a first additive compound with an oxidation initiation potential of more than 4.2... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070134520 - Method and apparatus of generating electric power: Power generation is performed by immobilizing an electron mediator having a standard electrode potential (E0′) at pH 7 in the range of −0.13 V to −0.28 V to one of a pair of electrodes to form an anode 1 and electrically connecting the other electrode as a cathode 3 to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070134521 - Device and method for determining the operating parameters of indiviudal cells or short stacks of fuel cells: The invention relates to a device and a method for determining the operating parameters of individual cells (2) or short stacks (10) of fuel cells, preferably of medium-temperature or high-temperature fuel cells.... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20070134522 - Method of activating vehicle fuel cell: The method of activating a vehicle fuel cell for ensuring maximum performance, improves performance of a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell, reduces a hydrogen usage, and has stable performance after manufactured. The method includes: placing a fuel cell in an activation device so as to be activated; changing a humidification... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20070134523 - Common distribution device of fuel cell for vehicle: A common distribution device of a fuel cell of a vehicle is provided where a first module and a second module comprises an air supplying portion and an air discharging portion are disposed below in the stack, and a third module and a fourth module which comprises a hydrogen supplying... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20070134524 - Fuel cell stack structure: A fuel cell stack structure comprising a unit module, common distributor, and bus bar is disclosed. The unit module comprises fuel cells, current collecting plates, insulating plates, end plates, and fixing bands.... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20070134525 - Polymer electrolyte fuel cell: A polymer electrolyte fuel cell includes a housing provided with an anode-side supply inlet for supplying a material for fuel, an anode and a cathode accommodated in the housing to sandwich a polymer electrolyte membrane, and a layer containing a biochemical catalyst which decomposes the material for fuel to generate... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070134526 - Fuel cell system and water recovery method thereof: A fuel cell system comprises a fuel gas supply mechanism (1, 91-97) which supplies a fuel gas, an oxidizing gas supply mechanism (2) which supplies an oxidizing gas, a fuel cell (5) which generates power using the fuel gas supplied from the fuel gas supply mechanism (1, 91-97) and the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070134527 - Hydration sensor apparatus for measuring membrane hydration in a fuel cell stack: A fuel cell system comprising a fuel cell stack and at least one hydration sensor apparatus for measuring membrane hydration in the fuel cell stack is disclosed. The hydration sensor apparatus comprises (1) an electrically insulated sensor comprising a polymer electrolyte membrane, (2) a power supply, and (3) a load... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070134528 - Power supply control apparatus and method for line connection type fuel cell system: The present invention discloses a power supply apparatus and method for a line connection type fuel cell system. The power supply apparatus for the line connection type fuel cell system includes: a storing unit for pre-storing a normal region and a warning region according to an operating condition of a... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070134529 - Power supply apparatus and method for line connection type fuel cell system: The present invention discloses a power supply apparatus and method for a line connection type fuel cell system. The power supply apparatus for the line connection type fuel cell system includes: a storing unit for pre-storing a normal region and a warning region according to an operating condition of a... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070134530 - Polymer electrolyte as well as polymer electrolyte membrane, membrane electrode assembly and polymer electrolyte fuel cell using the same: The present invention relates to a polymer electrolyte that provides high proton conductivity and low fuel crossover at the same time, as well as a member using the same. The embodiments of the invention can achieve high output and high energy density in the form of a polymer electrolyte fuel... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070134531 - Fuel cell and method for fabricating same: [Means for Solving Problems] A pair of electrode sheet 100a, 100b, each having a plurality of fuel electrodes 110a, 110b or a plurality of oxidant electrodes 112a, 112b supported by a resin section 102, are disposed on a single plane on the respective surfaces of a solid electrolyte membrane 105... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070134532 - Structures for dense, crack free thin films: The process described herein provides a simple and cost effective method for making crack free, high density thin ceramic film. The steps involve depositing a layer of a ceramic material on a porous or dense substrate. The deposited layer is compacted and then the resultant laminate is sintered to achieve... Agent: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

20070134533 - Electrolyte membrane, electrode, and fuel cell: A proton conductive inorganic material includes oxide particles containing at least one element X selected from the group consisting of W, Mo, Cr, B and V, an oxide carrier carrying the oxide particles and containing at least one element Y selected from the group consisting of Sn, Hf, Ge, Ga,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070134534 - Fuel cell and method of operating same: [Means for Solving Problems] An absorbent 1051 disposed near an oxidant electrode 108 of a fuel cell including a fuel electrode 102 and the oxidant electrode approaches to the vicinity of or is in contact with the oxidant electrode surface or departs from the oxidant electrode. Thereby, the absorbent removes... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070134535 - Separating plate for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell and method for manufacturing the same: A separating plate for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell and a method for manufacturing the same is provided. Preferred separating plates for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell are capable of being light weight and corrosion resistant, as well as being economical to produce and exhibit good physical properties. Preferred separating... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070134537 - Ceramic coatings for insulating modular fuel cell cassettes in a solid-oxide fuel cell stack: In assembling an SOFC fuel cell stack from a plurality of cassettes, the mounting plate of one cassette is attached to, and insulated from, the separator plate of the next-adjacent cassette by a peripheral dielectric seal consisting of a ceramic coating and a metal braze. Materials suitable for the ceramic... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070134536 - Fuel cell, disassembly method thereof, and separators used therein: A disassembly procedure of a fuel cell 10 first provides a cracking tool 12 having a sloped edge and places the sloped edge of the cracking tool 12 on a bottom of a recess 11. The disassembly procedure subsequently sets the bottom of the recess 11 where the sloped edge... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070134538 - Sealing member for fuel cell, fuel cell, and method of manufacturing the fuel cell: A sealing member for a fuel cell includes a pair of belts that include non-gas transmitting layers formed of aromatic polyimide or aluminum and thermoplastic resin layers. The belts are disposed such that the thermoplastic resin layers of the belts face each other, and the thermoplastic resin layers in outer... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070134539 - Solid oxide fuel cell module, fuel cell system using the same and manufacturing method thereof: A solid oxide fuel cell module of the invention, a fuel cell using the same and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The solid oxide fuel cell module is easily manufacturable, economical, easily sealable and high in current density. A support is made of a first catalytic material. A first... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070134540 - Solid oxide electrochemical devices having a dimensionally stable bonding agent to bond an anode to anode interconnect and methods: A solid oxide electrochemical device having improved mechanical integrity comprising a bonding agent for physically and electrically bonding an anode to an anode interconnect, the bonding agent comprising a particulate metal, wherein the bonding agent is substantially chemically inert during operation of the solid oxide electrochemical device. A method for... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20070134542 - Flow board for fuel cell: A flow board applied to a fuel cell is disclosed. The fuel cell includes at least one membrane electrode assembly. The flow board comprises a plate body having one or more concave portions, each of which is disposed corresponding to the position of a membrane electrode assembly, and one or... Agent: G. Link Co., Ltd.

20070134541 - Fuel cell: The present invention is intended to enable efficient assembly of a fuel cell stack without causing any damage to the conductive separator. In a fuel cell including an anode, a cathode, an electrolyte membrane interposed between the anode and the cathode, and conductive separators each having manifold apertures 12 and... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070134544 - Hydrophobic catalyst layer for polymer electrolyte fuel cell and method of producing the same, and polymer electrolyte fuel cell and method of producing the same: Provided is a hydrophobic catalyst layer for a polymer electrolyte fuel cell to which hydrophobicity is imparted so that the dissipation property of produced water is improved and which simultaneously has an increased effective surface area and an increased utilization ratio of a catalyst, and a method of producing the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070134545 - Membrane electrode assembly for fuel cells and fabrication method thereof: The invention proposes a membrane electrode assembly of a fuel cell and its fabrication method thereof. The membrane electrode assembly comprises: a proton exchange membrane; an anode layer that is disposed on a surface of the proton exchange membrane; a first cathode catalyst layer comprising at least one hydrophobic material... Agent: G. Link Co., Ltd.

20070134543 - Stepped gradient fuel electrode and method for making the same: The present invention provides for a method of depositing a stepped-gradient fuel electrode onto a fuel cell support 2 and the resulting fuel cell, that comprises placing a solid oxide fuel cell support that has at least an air electrode layer 4 and an electrolyte layer 6 into an atmospheric... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070134546 - Method of recycling a battery: A method of the present invention is directed to recycling a battery that includes a plurality of lithium cells removable from one another. The battery is tested to measure internal resistance of the lithium cells to determine if the lithium cells present a predetermined level of operational capability. The lithium... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.C.

20070134547 - Battery cell with improved pressure relief vent: An electrochemical cell with a pressure relief vent formed in a metal plate disposed in at least one of the closed end and the open end of the container. The pressure relief vent has an annular ring that includes a reduced thickness groove, interrupted in at least two places by... Agent: Michael C. Pophal Eveready Battery Company Inc

20070134548 - Battery separator for lithium polymer battery: A battery separator for a lithium battery is disclosed. The separator has a microporous membrane and a coating thereon. The coating is made from a mixture of a gel forming polymer, a first solvent, and a second solvent. The first solvent is more volatile than the second solvent. The second... Agent: Hammer & Hanf, PC

20070134549 - Three-dimensional thin-film microbattery: An electrical energy storage device (20) includes a microchannel plate (MCP) (22) having channels (24) formed therein, the channels having surface areas. Thin films (26) are formed over the surface areas and define an anode (34,38), a cathode (34,38), and a solid electrolyte (36) disposed between the anode and the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070134550 - Prismatic sealed rechargeable battery, battery module, and battery pack: A prismatic sealed rechargeable battery includes a substantially prismatic battery case that accommodates an electrode plate assembly and an electrolyte solution. The battery case is formed of metal. On a side face of the battery case, a thin plate is provided which has a plurality of protruding portions formed in... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20070134551 - Electrochemical battery and method for making same: The invention provides a current collecting terminal for use in an electrochemical battery formed from a plurality of Electrochemical (EC) bundles. The current collecting terminal has a first end and a second end, and comprises a first conductive component and a second conductive component for electrically connecting a pair of... Agent: Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, LLP (avestor)

20070134552 - Multilayer ferritin array for bionanobattery: A thin-film electrode for a bio-nanobattery is produced by consecutively depositing arrays of a ferritin protein on a substrate, employing a spin self-assembly procedure. By this procedure, a first ferritin layer is first formed on the substrate, followed by building a second, oppositely-charged ferritin layer on the top of the... Agent: George F. Helfrich C/o Kaufman & Canoles

20070134553 - Negative electrode active material for battery, anode can for battery, zinc negative plate for battery, manganese dry battery and method for manufacturing same: Presented is a virtually lead additive-free but highly reliable and practical anode active material with improved process-ability and corrosion resistance and a manganese dry battery made from that material. And, disclosed is a variation of manufacturing method of the material aforementioned in material composition of bismuth and others to add... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070134554 - Synthesis method for carbon material based on limpo4: Method of synthesis for a material made of particles having a core and a coating and/or being connected to each other by carbon cross-linking, the core of these particles containing at least one compound of formula LixM1−yM′y(XO4)n, in which x, y and n are numbers such as 0≦x≦2, 0≦y≦0.6 and... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070134555 - Coated carbon nanotube array electrodes: The present invention provides conductive carbon nanotube (CNT) electrode materials comprising aligned CNT substrates coated with an electrically conducting polymer, and the fabrication of electrodes for use in high performance electrical energy storage devices. In particular, the present invention provides conductive CNTs electrode material whose electrical properties render them especially... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070134556 - Lithium ion secondary battery: A lithium ion secondary battery, having a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator provided between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, the positive electrode and the negative electrode each having a collector and an active material layer provided over the collector, and the relationship Ts≧4Tc being satisfied,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070134557 - Non-aqueous electrolyte additive for improving safety and lithium ion secondary battery comprising the same: The present invention relates to a non-aqueous electrolyte additive for improving safety and a lithium secondary battery comprising the same, and more particularly to a non-aqueous electrolyte additive that can improve cycle life and safety properties of a lithium ion secondary battery. According to the present invention, an organometallic compound... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070134558 - Nonaqueous secondary cell: Using a positive electrode active material including spinel type manganese oxide as the main constituent, a novel low cost and high output power flat type nonaqueous secondary cell for HEVs that has increased safety at overcharge, and superior storage properties and cycle life is provided. A flat type nonaqueous secondary... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070128472 - Cell assembly and casing assembly for a power storage device: A hybrid lead acid battery and porous carbon supercapacitor energy storage device is asymmetrically supercapacitive and comprises at least one lead electrode, at least two carbon-based electrodes, a separator, a casing, and an acid electrolyte. The lead electrode has a non-conductive sheet of porous material which envelops a lead based... Agent: Cahn & Samuels LLP

20070128477 - Apparatus and method for heating fuel cells: A fuel cell or fuel cell stack heater using resistive heat. A resistive conductor (preferably some type of metal wire) is attached to a source of electricity such as a battery. The resistive conductor is in proximity with the fuel cell or stack so that when the resistive conductor is... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070128475 - Base metal dehydrogenation of amine-boranes: A method of dehydrogenating an amine-borane having the formula R1H2N—BH2R2 using base metal catalyst. The method generates hydrogen and produces at least one of a [R1HN—BHR2]m oligomer and a [R1N—BR2]n oligomer. The method of dehydrogenating amine-boranes may be used to generate H2 for portable power sources, such as, but not... Agent: Los Alamos National Security, LLC

20070128473 - Differential temperature energy harvesting in a fuel cell powered underwater vehicle: A method and apparatus for harvesting energy in a fuel cell powered vehicle has first and second energy harvesting elements with at least two ends, the first end being electrically insulated from and in thermal communication with a high temperature reservoir associated with the fuel cell, the second end being... Agent: Paul J. Esatto, Jr. Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070128476 - Method and apparatus for controlling a combined heat and power fuel cell system: A cogeneration fuel cell system and associated methods of operation are provided that accommodate a demand for heat as well as a demand for electric power. The system is operated among various modes to balance heat and power demand signals. In general, a fuel cell system is coupled to a... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070128474 - Shutdown procedure for fuel cell stacks: A method of ceasing operation of a fuel cell stack, the fuel cell stack comprising a plurality of fuel cells, each fuel cell comprising at least one anode flow field and at least one cathode flow field for supplying fuel and oxidant thereto, the fuel comprising hydrogen, the method comprising... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070128478 - High efficiency fuel cell system: A technique includes operating a fuel cell, which produces an effluent flow. The technique includes routing the effluent flow through an electrochemical pump to extract fuel from the effluent flow and providing the extracted fuel to the fuel cell.... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070128479 - High efficiency fuel cell system: A technique includes operating a fuel cell, which produces an effluent flow. The technique includes routing the effluent flow through an electrochemical pump to extract fuel from the effluent flow to produce a first feedback flow. The technique includes using the effluent flow to produce a second feedback flow separate... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070128480 - Fuel cell system: A fuel cell system that includes a heat exchange unit which can control the temperature of the fuel and/or the air supplied to a stack unit. In one example embodiment, a fuel cell system includes a reforming unit for generating hydrogen floating gas, and supplying the hydrogen floating gas through... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070128481 - Fuel cell system: When an operation of a fuel cell system (100) is stopped, a flow of cathode off-gas into a circulation passage (28) is stopped. A stopped state of the flow of the cathode off-gas into the circulation passage (28) is held even after a start-up of the system (100) until the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070128482 - Power supply apparatus and method for line connection type fuel cell system: A power supply apparatus for a line connection type fuel cell system includes a power converter system (PCS) control power supply which generates PCS control power from line power, a balance of plant (BOP) power supply which generates BOP power from line power, a regulator which generates PCS control power... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070128483 - Power controlling apparatus for fuel cell system and method thereof: A power controlling apparatus for a fuel cell system includes a fuel cell controller which analyzes power state information of a fuel cell system, transmits a power state information signal based on the analysis to a power conversion controller, receives a load request power information signal from the power conversion... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070128484 - Fuel cell system: A technology for preventing degradation of a hydrogen permeable metal layer in a fuel cell 210 is provided. A fuel cell system 200 including a fuel cell 210 with an anode which has the hydrogen permeable metal layer comprises a fuel cell controller 230 for controlling the operation status of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070128487 - Apparatus for thermal simulation of fuel cell: The present invention is a simulator used in initial system integration tests of a SOFC to test peripheral components with saved costs by replacing the costly SOFC with the simulator.... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070128485 - Fuel cell system: A fuel cell system comprises a hydrogen storage system for storing and releasing hydrogen, a fuel cell in fluid communication with the hydrogen storage system for receiving released hydrogen from the hydrogen storage system and for electrochemically reacting the hydrogen with an oxidant to produce electricity and an anode exhaust.... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070128488 - Fuel cell system: A fuel cell system includes a branch anode gas supply pipe in which hydrogen before supplied to a fuel cell flows; and a branch cathode gas supply pipe in which air before supplied to the fuel cell flows. One end on the upstream side of the branch anode gas supply... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070128486 - Fuel cell system with waste-heat recovery: A fuel cell system enabling waste heat recovery includes an air supply unit and a fuel supply unit for supplying required air and methanol/water mixture, respectively, to the fuel cell stack for reaction. The methanol/water mixture is then expelled from the fuel cell stack after having been used in the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070128489 - Film electrode junction for fuel cell and fuel cell: The object of the invention is to improve the output performance of a fuel cell. The object is attained by a film electrode junction, characterized in that it comprises a polymer electrolyte film and a cathode electrode and an anode electrode between which the polymer electrolyte film is interposed, the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070128491 - Advanced solid acid electrolyte composites: Solid acid/surface-hydrogen-containing secondary component electrolyte composites, methods of synthesizing such materials, electrochemical device incorporating such materials, and uses of such materials in fuel cells, membrane reactors and hydrogen separations are provided. The stable electrolyte composite material comprises a solid acid component capable of undergoing rotational disorder of oxyanion groups and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070128490 - Proton exchange membranes (pem) based on hybrid inorganic-organic copolymers with grafted phosphoric acid groups and implanted metal cations: A proton exchange membrane comprises a hybrid inorganic-organic polymer that includes implanted metal cations. Acid groups are bound to the hybrid inorganic-organic polymer through an interaction with the implanted metal cations. An example process for manufacturing a proton exchange membrane includes sol-gel polymerization of silane precursors in a medium containing... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle, Anderson & Citkowski, P.C.

20070128492 - Fuel cell and fuel reservoir for fuel cell: In order to provide a small-sized fuel cell suitably used as an electric power source for portable electronic appliances such as cellular phones, note type personal computers and PDA, assumed is a structure in which connected are plural unit cells each of which is formed by constructing an electrolyte layer... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070128493 - Fuel delivery system and method of use thereof: Fuel delivery system and method for delivering liquid fuel to an electrode in a liquid-type fuel cell are disclosed. The liquid fuel is passively delivered to a reaction surface of an electrode by capillary force through a porous structure. The porous structure has a shape and a capillary force distribution... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070128494 - Integrated bipolar plate/diffuser for a proton exchange membrane fuel cell: An integrated bipolar plate/diffuser fuel cell component comprising a monolith of electrically conducting preform material having: (a) a porous region having a porous surface; and (b) a 6 hermetic region infiltrated with a matrix