Chemistry: electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process inventions 12/08

20080318088 - Battery pack for cordless devices: A battery pack including a housing, a terminal block, a printed circuit board electrically connected to the terminal block, at least one battery cell, and a spark gap device on the printed circuit board to provide electrostatic discharge protection and disposed between the printed circuit board and the terminal block.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080318092 - Co-production of hydrogen and electricity in a high temperature electrochemical system: A high temperature electrochemical system, such as a solid oxide fuel cell system, generates hydrogen and optionally electricity in a fuel cell mode. At least a part of the generated hydrogen is separated and stored or provided to a hydrogen using device. A solid oxide regenerative fuel cell system stores... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080318089 - Fast locally resolved electrochemical impedance spectroscopy in polymer electrolyte fuel cells: A fuel cell, such as a polymer electrolyte fuel cell, includes an anode reactant supply plate, an anode current collector, a cathode reactant supply plate, and a cathode current collector. At least one of the anode reactant supply plate, the cathode reactant supply plate, the anode current collector and the... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20080318091 - Method and system of operating a high-temperature fuel cell: The invention relates to a method and to a system of operating a high-temperature fuel cell. At least one fuel cell, a reformer, an afterburner and a heat exchanger are present in the system. The total efficiency should be increased with the invention in accordance with the object set. In... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080318090 - Method for operating a direct oxidation fuel cell and corresponding arrangement: The invention relates to a method for operating a direct oxidation fuel cell in which the fuel cell is supplied generally with methanol via a transport device for the fuel. The invention likewise relates to a corresponding arrangement comprising a direct oxidation fuel cell, a fuel reservoir and at least... Agent: Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20080318093 - Hydrogen recirculation apparatus for fuel cell vehicle and method thereof: The present invention provides a hydrogen recirculation apparatus for a fuel cell vehicle, a fuel tank storing hydrogen, a high-pressure regulator for regulating pressure of hydrogen, a low-pressure regulator for regulating pressure of hydrogen, and a solenoid valve for opening/closing a passage from the fuel tank to the pressure regulators... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080318094 - Methods for conversion of a light alkane to a higher hydrocarbon, method of dehydrogenating an alkane, and method of reactivating a catalyst layer: A controllable proton exchange reactive membrane comprising a proton exchange membrane, at least two catalyst layers disposed on opposing sides of the proton exchange membrane, and a power source operably coupled to the at least two catalyst layers. A direction and magnitude of flow of hydrogen through the proton exchange... Agent: Stephen R. Christian

20080318095 - Hydrogen generating apparatus and fuel cell power generation system: A hydrogen generating apparatus is disclosed, which can provide a constant amount of hydrogen regardless of its orientation. The hydrogen generating apparatus can include an electrolyte bath, which contains an electrolyte solution; a free-moving first electrode, which is positioned inside the electrolyte bath, and which generates electrons; a free-moving second... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080318096 - Hydrogen generating apparatus and fuel cell power generation system: A hydrogen generating apparatus can include an absorbent layer that absorbs an aqueous solution, a metal membrane deposited on either side of the absorbent layer such that the absorbent layer is interposed between the metal membranes, and a support layer formed on one side of one of the metal membranes... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080318097 - Electrochemical cell for oxidation of ammonia and ethanol: An electrochemical cell for causing a reaction that produces hydrogen, the electrochemical cell comprising: a first electrode comprising: at least one layered electrocatalyst formed of at least one active metal layer deposited on a carbon support, wherein the at least one active metal layer is active to a target species;... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20080318099 - Apparatus for preventing carbon corrosion at cathod in fuel cell: The present invention provides an apparatus for effectively preventing carbon corrosion from occurring at the cathode of a fuel cell. The present apparatuses include an air blower supplying air from an air supply source to a fuel cell; a fuel cell receiving air from the air blower to generate electricity... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080318098 - Fuel cell system and driving method of fuel cell system: A fuel cell system 10 includes fuel cells 22, a hydrogen supply conduit 60 to supply a hydrogen-containing fuel gas to the fuel cells 22, a first pressure sensor 52 that detects an internal pressure of the hydrogen supply conduit 60, and a shutoff valve 61 that is closed to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080318102 - Bipolar plate for fuel cell comprising a connecting channel: The invention concerns a bipolar plate for fuel cell, of the type comprising a cathode bipolar half-plate and an anode bipolar half-plate attached to each other, each bipolar half-plate (1) consisting of a plate including in its central part an active region (2) and at its peripheral part a plurality... Agent: Nicolas E. Seckel Patent Attorney

20080318100 - Fuel cell assembly manifold heater for improved water removal and freeze start: An apparatus for heating a fuel cell assembly is disclosed, wherein a means for heating is disposed in a manifold of the fuel cell assembly and the means for heating causes the manifold to be heated to militate against fluid condensation and ice formation in the fuel cell assembly.... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20080318101 - Intelligent mea for fuel cell: For this, the present invention provides n intelligent membrane electrode assembly (MEA) for fuel cell, including: an MEA in which a catalyst layer is coated on both sides of an ion exchange membrane, and an ion exchange membrane support film is attached on both sides of an edge portion of... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080318103 - Fuel cell system: Provided is a fuel cell system including a polymer electrolyte fuel cell with improved durability, which is capable of suppressing a phenomenon in which a polymer electrolyte membrane is decomposed and degraded. In the fuel cell system including the polymer electrolyte fuel cell including: a membrane electrode assembly including a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080318104 - Electrolyte solution for hydrogen generating apparatus and hydrogen generating apparatus comprising the same: The invention provides an electrolyte solution for hydrogen generating apparatus including water; at least one ionizing compound; and at least one chelating agent. The electrolyte solution for hydrogen generating apparatus according to the invention can increase hydrogen generation time and an amount of hydrogen generation by controlling hydrogen generation rate... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080318106 - Catalyst for a cathode of a mixed reactant fuel cell, membrane-electrode assembly for a mixed reactant fuel cell including the same, and mixed reactant fuel cell system including the same: The cathode catalyst for a mixed reactant fuel cell includes a mixed catalyst that includes a first catalyst including a Ru—Ch1 compound where Ch1 is a chalcogens selected from the group consisting of S, Se, Te, and combinations thereof, and a second catalyst including a Pt—Ch2 compound where Ch2 is... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080318107 - Composite electrolyte membrane, production method thereof, membrane-electrode assembly, and fuel cell: A composite electrolyte membrane uses a metal-oxide hydrate which has a number of hydration water molecules of 2.7 or more and 10 or less and/or which is in the form of particles having a particle diameter of 1 nm or more and 10 nm or less. The composite electrolyte membrane... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080318105 - Fuel cell assembly: A fuel cell assembly comprising a fuel cell incorporated in a composite laminate structure, the composite laminate structure comprising a core material within which the fuel cell is embedded. The fuel cell comprises an electrolytic membrane having first and second faces, and first and second electrodes disposed adjacent to the... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20080318109 - Method for the production of a sulfonated poly (1, 3, 4-oxadiazole) polymer: A sulfonated poly(1,3,4-oxadiazole) polymer is produced by producing of a solution of hydrazine sulfate salt and a non-sulfonated dicarboxylic acid or derivative thereof in polyphosphoric acid; heating the solution under an inert gas atmosphere; and precipitating sulfonated poly(1,3,4-oxadiazole) polymer in a basic solution.... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20080318108 - Solid electrolyte, membrane and electrode assembly, and fuel cell: s

20080318111 - Fuel cell: A fuel cell including a plurality of first fuel cell modules is provided. Each of the fuel cell modules includes a cathode current collector, an anode current collector, a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) and a flow channel cover plate. The anode current collector is disposed above the cathode current collector.... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080318113 - Fuel cell apparatus: A fuel cell apparatus including a reaction unit for performing a chemical reaction, at least one fan for providing an airflow, and an airflow guiding device is provided. The airflow guiding device is connected to the fan and the reaction unit. The airflow guiding device includes an airflow rectification segment... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080318112 - Fuel cell module: A fuel cell module including a membrane electrode assembly (MEA), a pressing plate, an anode collector, an anode flow channel plate, a cathode collector, and a cathode flow channel plate is provided. The MEA has a protrusion, and the pressing plate presses an edge of a cathode of the MEA.... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080318114 - Separator for fuel cell and its manufacturing method and fuel cell stack using the separator: A separator for a fuel cell, including: a plate; a first flow channel having a first depth on a first side of the plate; a first inlet hole coupled to the first flow channel; a first outlet hole coupled to the first flow channel; a second flow channel on a... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080318110 - Thermoplastic bipolar plate: A method of manufacturing a fuel cell bipolar plate comprising first and second thermoformed plates. The thermoformed plates comprise at least one thermoplastic polymer. The method includes providing film cast resin mixture and forming it into a substantially flat sheet having first and second opposing major surfaces. The sheet may... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080318115 - Flow channel plate: A flow channel plate suitable for use in a fuel cell including a plate body and at least a group of flow guiding blocks is provided. The plate body has a first side wall and a second side wall opposite to the first side wall. The first side wall has... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080318116 - Gas diffusion electrode substrate, gas diffusion electrode and process for its procution, and fuel cell: There is provided a gas diffusion electrode substrate comprising a glass nonwoven fabric obtained by adhering a binder containing an acrylic resin and/or vinyl acetate resin to glass fibers.... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080318117 - Battery assembly including an electrolyte management system: A battery assembly may include a battery and a battery housing. The battery may include an electrolyte vent to provide a pressurized electrolyte discharge during an electrolyte discharge event. The battery housing may contain the battery and may include an electrolyte control member to dissipate energy from and inhibit dispersion... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080318118 - Metering schemes for reducing thermal spread in a battery pack: A battery pack assembly comprising a plurality of battery packs each including a plurality of cells and at least one metering plate for metering the quantity of air flowing respectively through each of the air paths of the battery packs. An inlet metering plate is disposed upstream of the battery... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080318119 - Battery pack: In a battery pack, battery pack flange portions are provided at opposing sides of a battery assembly along a stacking direction of battery modules, so as to project laterally. The battery module flange portions are interposed between an upper case flange portion and a lower case flange portion when the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080318120 - Power storage unit: A power storage unit has: a plurality of power storage modules each constituted of a power generation element and a power-generation-element-case containing the power generation element and disposed adjacent to each other, and a case containing the power storage modules and an insulative fluid. At least one groove is formed... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080318121 - Vehicle power storage unit and vehicle: A vehicle power storage unit, has: a power storage assembly; a coolant for cooling the power storage assembly; a casing having a coolant inlet through which the coolant is filled into the casing and containing the coolant and the power storage assembly; a gas-discharge pipe through which gas produced by... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080318122 - Large format lithium-ion cell and its uses thereof: This invention is directed to a battery pack with a high energy density and a large format prismatic lithium-ion cell comprising (1) at least one positive electrode, (2) at least one negative electrode, (3) a non-aqueous electrolyte, and (4) a homogeneous microporous membrane which comprises (a) a hot-melt adhesive, (b)... Agent: Diane Dunn Mckay Mathews, Shepherd, Mckay & Bruneau, P.A.

20080318123 - Lithium cell: A primary cell having an anode comprising lithium and a cathode comprising iron disulfide (FeS2) and carbon particles. The electrolyte comprises a lithium salt dissolved in a nonaqueous solvent mixture which contains 1,3-dioxolane and one or more solvents selected from a furan, or alkylfuran, or alkylhydrofuran or tetrahydrofuran, and mixtures... Agent: Mr. Barry D. Josephs Attorney At Law

20080318124 - Battery: A battery capable of ensuring storage characteristics and overcharge characteristics is provided. The battery comprising a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The cathode has a cathode current collector and a cathode active material layer provided on the cathode current collector. The cathode active material layer includes an aromatic... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080318126 - Cathode mix and nonaqueous electrolyte battery: A cathode mix for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries includes a cathode active material having an olivine crystal structure, and polyvinyl pyrrolidone. Also, a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes: a cathode; an anode; and a nonaqueous electrolyte, wherein the cathode includes: a cathode active material having an olivine crystal structure; and... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080318125 - Positive electrode for alkaline storage battery and alkaline storage battery: There are provided a low-cost positive electrode for an alkaline storage battery which retains an excellent current collectivity over a long period of time and a low-cost alkaline storage battery which retains an excellent charge/discharge efficiency over a long period of time. A positive electrode for an alkaline storage battery... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080318127 - Anode material for lithium batteries: Primary and secondary Li-ion and lithium-metal based electrochemical cell systems. The suppression of gas generation is achieved through the addition of an additive or additives to the electrolyte system of respective cell, or to the cell itself whether it be a liquid, a solid- or plasticized polymer electrolyte system. The... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080318128 - Lithium alloy/sulfur batteries: Electrochemical cells including anode compositions that may enhance charge-discharge cycling efficiency and uniformity are presented. In some embodiments, alloys are incorporated into one or more components of an electrochemical cell, which may enhance the performance of the cell. For example, an alloy may be incorporated into an electroactive component of... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080318129 - Fuel cell cathodes: The present invention relates to a method of producing a fuel cell cathode, fuel cell cathodes, and fuel cells comprising same.... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080318131 - Cathode active material for nonaqeous electrolyte battery, method of producing the same and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery: A cathode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is provided. The cathode active material includes: composite oxide particles containing at least lithium and cobalt; a coating layer disposed on at least a part of the surface of said composite oxide particles and including an oxide containing lithium and at... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080318132 - Compositions and methods for protection of active metal anodes and polymer electrolytes: Electrochemical structures with a protective interlayer for prevention of deleterious reactions between an active metal electrode and polymer electrolytes, and methods for their fabrication. The structures may be incorporated in battery cells. The interlayer is capable of protecting an active metal anode and a polymer electrolyte from deleterious reaction with... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080318130 - Electrode and lithium-ion secondary battery: An electrode is provided as one that can suppress generation of hydrogen and that has sufficiently low impedance. The electrode has an aluminum current collector, an aluminum hydroxide layer provided on the aluminum current collector, and an active material layer containing lithium-containing metal oxide and provided on the aluminum hydroxide... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080318133 - Battery electrode: A battery electrode, includes: a collector; and an active material layer formed on a surface of the collector and including: an active material, and a conductive additive having a bulk density which is gradually decreased in a direction from a collector side of the active material layer to a surface... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080318134 - Polymer membranes: The invention relates to novel organic/inorganic hybrid membranes which have the following composition: a polymer acid containing —SO3H, —PO3H2, —COOH or B(OH)2 groups, a polymeric base (optional), which contains primary, secondary or tertiary amino groups, pyridine groups, imidazole, benzimidazole, triazole, benzotriazole, pyrazole or benzopyrazole groups, either in the side chain... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080318135 - Hybrid battery: The hybrid battery comprises an electrode unit consisting of an anode and a cathode, a separator for electrically separating the anode and the cathode, and an electrolyte filled in a space between the anode and the cathode so as to form an electric double layer on surfaces of the anode... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20080318136 - Non-aqueous electrolytes: Non-aqueous electrolytes have poly(ethyleneoxide) siloxane or poly(ethyleneoxide) phosphate, a salt, and an electrode stabilizing additive. Electrochemical cells using such electrolytes may be prepared and exhibit improved charge carrying capacity.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080311432 - Cathode comprising active material composite and lithium battery using the same: A cathode including an active material composite and a lithium battery using the same. The active material composite of the cathode includes a mixed oxide complex and a lithium-containing compound, the lithium-containing compound having a metal based compound coated on the surface of the lithium-containing compound.... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080311433 - Fuel cell system and method for determining deterioration of impurity removal member: A fuel cell system 1 has an impurity removal member 24 for removing impurities from a fluid discharged from a fuel cell 10, and the impurity removal member 24 is located in an exhaust passage 19 for the fluid discharged from the fuel cell 10 to flow through. The fuel... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080311435 - Gas diffusion electrodes, membrane-electrode assemblies and method for the production thereof: A gas diffusion electrode comprising an electrically conductive web, a non-catalyzed gas diffusion layer comprising at least one electroconductive filler and at least one binder, and a noble metal coating obtained by subjecting an electrically conductive web to a first ion beam having an energy not higher than 500 eV,... Agent: Charles A. Muserlian C/o Hedman And Costigan

20080311434 - Metallic supporting grid for thin electrolyte membrane in solid oxide fuel cells: A solid oxide fuel cell structure obtainable by selective electro-chemical processing, comprising an electrolyte membrane (4) formed by a thin film more than 50 nm but less than 10 μm thick, covering a supporting structure (1) made of a bulk substrate, the supporting structure having at least one 100 μm... Agent: Sturm & Fix LLP

20080311438 - Fuel cell humidity control system and method: A control system for controlling the amount of water in at least one fluid stream that is passed through a fuel cell stack comprises a humidifier arrangement, a sensor and a controller. The humidifier arrangement is operable to humidify the fluid stream. The sensor is disposed downstream of the humidifier... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20080311437 - Method for fuel cell start-up with uniform hydrogen flow: A fuel cell system is provided having a fuel cell stack including a plurality of fuel cells. The fuel cell system includes an anode supply manifold in fluid communication with the plurality of fuel cells, the anode supply manifold adapted to deliver a anode supply stream to the plurality of... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20080311439 - Shut-down procedure for a fuel cell fed with pure oxygen: A shut-down procedure for an electricity delivery system comprising a fuel cell, the cell being fed with pure oxygen as oxidant and delivering an electrical voltage to an electrical power line. The electricity delivery system comprises a fuel gas circuit on the anode side, and a pure oxygen circuit on... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080311440 - Fuel cell system and method of operating the same: A fuel cell system includes a power unit that generates power using a fuel; a fuel storage unit that stores the fuel; a fuel supply device that conveys the fuel from the fuel storage unit to the power unit; and a control unit that controls the supply of the fuel... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080311442 - Comprehensive method for triggering anode bleed events in a fuel cell system: A method for triggering an anode bleed from split fuel cell stacks in a fuel cell system that employs anode flow-shifting. The method requests the bleed if any one of three different conditions are met. Those conditions include that the concentration of nitrogen in the anode side of the split... Agent: MillerIPGroup, PLC General Motors Corporation

20080311444 - Fuel cell power generation system, and method for operating fuel cell power generation system: The fuel cell power generation system includes a fuel cell, a reformer, a carbon monoxide decreasing unit, a first raw material supply source, a first valve which is provided to a first raw material flow passage which is arranged between the first raw material supply sources and the reformer, a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080311441 - Fuel cell system using cathode exhaust for anode recirculation: A system for providing fuel recirculation in a fuel cell is disclosed, wherein the system uses a cathode exhaust flow to energize a fuel recirculation pump that facilitates the fuel recirculation from an anode exhaust passage to an anode supply passage.... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20080311445 - High temperature fuel cell system and method of operating same: A high temperature fuel cell stack system, such as a solid oxide fuel cell system, with an improved balance of plant efficiency includes a thermally integrated reformer, combustor and the fuel cell stack.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080311443 - Hydrogen purification for fuel cell vehicle: A purification system and method for purifying a hydrogen stream supplied from a storage tank mounted in a vehicle to produce a purified hydrogen stream for use in a PEM fuel cell system that is utilized within the vehicle. The hydrogen is purified within a membrane separator having hydrogen transport... Agent: Praxair, Inc. Law Department - M1 557

20080311447 - Fuel composition for polymer electrolyte fuel cell polymer electrolyte fuel cell system including same: The fuel composition for a fuel cell for a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell includes a fuel, water, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), and heteropoly acid. The fuel may be a hydrocarbon fuel. The hydrogen peroxide may be present in an amount of 10 wt % to 60 wt % based on... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080311446 - Fuel processor having temperature control function for co shift reactor and method of operating the fuel processor: A fuel processor includes a reformer that generates hydrogen gas by reacting a fuel source and water; a burner that heats the reformer to a temperature suitable for a hydrogen generation reaction; a CO shift reactor that removes CO generated during the hydrogen generation reaction in the reformer; a heating... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080311448 - High temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells: High temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells and techniques related thereto that involve alternative materials. For example, in one aspect, a device includes a high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell comprising one or more metal anodes or cathodes.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080311450 - Cooling apparatus for fuel cell: To provide a cooling apparatus that restrains a rise in conductivity of a cooling medium. A cooling apparatus for a fuel cell includes cooling piping through which a cooling medium for cooling the fuel cell flows, a conductivity measuring unit measuring a conductivity of the cooling medium that flows through... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080311449 - Fuel cell system: A fuel cell system has an oxidizer gas flow rate adjuster that adjusts a flow rate of oxidizer gas of the fuel cell stack and a controller that determines a humidity state in the fuel cell stack. The controller has an average cell voltage calculator that calculates an average cell... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080311451 - Fuel cell system and fuel cell control method: A fuel cell system includes: a polymer electrolyte fuel cell; a resistance sensor that detects the internal resistance of the fuel cell; a dew point sensor that detects the dew point of anode off gas from the fuel cell; and a controller that executes an electrolyte membrane hydration control according... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080311452 - Fuel cell system: A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell stack including a plurality of fuel cells connected in series; a fuel supply portion supplying a fuel to each fuel cell; a current regulation portion regulating an electric current flowing from the fuel cell stack in such a way that an output... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080311453 - Fuel cell system and fuel cell vehicle: In a fuel cell device, when a fuel cell device is not operated and an external power source enabling a battery charge of a secondary battery is connected to the secondary battery, a controller is provided to operate a water pump to circulate the cooling water via a circulation pipeline.... Agent: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080311454 - Turbocompressor impelling fuel recycle in fuel cell power plant: A fuel cell power plant (7, 7a) has a stack (8) fed hydrogen-rich fuel gas from a source (14, 14a) with fuel recycle (30, 34) through a compressor (20) of a turbocompressor (19) having a turbine (17, 17a) driven either by high pressure hydrogen (14) or air exhaust (41).... Agent: M. P. Williams

20080311456 - Portable device, case for portable device, and fuel cell structure: A fuel cell is disposed inside a camera housing in the vicinity of a front panel, an upper panel, and a side panel in parallel with the respective panels. The invention provides broader cell area and adequate power can be supplied reliably.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080311455 - Solid oxide fuel cell components tuned by atomic layer deposition: A reduced cost solid oxide fuel cell having enhanced surface exchange rates and diffusivity of oxide ions is provided. The invention cell includes a first porous electrode and a second porous electrode, where the porous electrodes have a layer of electronically conductive porous non-precious metal, and the porous non-precious metal... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm, Inc.

20080311459 - Flow field plate arrangement for a fuel cell: A fuel cell comprising anode and cathode flow field plates having a multitude of flow channels separated by land features wherein the land features of the anode side are wider than the land features of the cathode side is disclosed. In fuel cells, the flow field plate arrangement of the... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20080311458 - Fluid manifold and method therefor: A electrochemical cell system includes a fluid manifold having a layered structure. The fluid manifold includes at least one conduit layer having a first side and a second side. The at least one conduit layer has at least one conduit channel.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080311457 - Fuel cell stack compression retention system using overlapping sheets: A fuel cell system is provided including a fuel cell stack having a plurality of fuel cells disposed between a first end unit and a second end unit. The fuel cell system includes a compression retention system comprising a first sheet coupled to the first end unit and a second... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20080311460 - Fuel cartridge: Provided is a fuel cartridge detachably connected with a fuel cell main body, wherein the fuel cartridge is equipped with a fuel-storing vessel for storing a liquid fuel, a fuel discharge part and a follower which seals the liquid fuel and moves as the liquid fuel is consumed at the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080311461 - Electrochemical fuel cell stack having staggered fuel and oxidant plenums: An electrochemical fuel cell stack having staggered fuel and oxidant plenums is disclosed. This construction allows for reduced cell pitch without reducing plenum thickness and hence fluid flow.... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080311463 - Membrane electrode assembly with multilayered cathode electrode for using in fuel cell system: A membrane electrode assembly in a fuel cell system includes a cathode electrode that includes a support layer; a catalyst layer; and a first carbon layer and second carbon layer between the support layer and the catalyst layer, the first carbon layer having a relatively higher porosity and the second... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080311462 - Membrane electrode assembly, method for producing the same and polymer electrolyte fuel cell: m

20080311465 - Alpha voltaic batteries and methods thereof: An alpha voltaic battery includes at least one layer of a semiconductor material comprising at least one p/n junction, at least one absorption and conversion layer on the at least one layer of semiconductor layer, and at least one alpha particle emitter. The absorption and conversion layer prevents at least... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20080311464 - Method of using an electrochemical cell: The silicon as an anode material for use in lithium ion batteries according to the present invention provides a method for cell manufacturing. The degree to which the silicon is lithiated during cycling can be controlled, thereby lowering the volume expansion while maintaining an acceptable volumetric capacity, and reducing the... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080311466 - Thermoelectric methods to control temperature of batteries: A method of controlling a temperature of a battery is disclosed. The method includes providing a thermoelectric device in thermally-conductive contact with the battery, measuring an actual temperature of the battery, comparing the actual temperature of the battery to a reference temperature for the battery, heating the battery by operation... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20080311467 - Electronic appliance: An electronic appliance includes a battery mounting portion on which two types of batteries are selectively mounted, wherein the battery mounting portion has: a battery mounting recessed portion; an appliance side connecting terminal; an urging member; and a single manipulating member; while a battery side connecting terminal of one battery... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080311436 - Differential pressure control method for molten carbonates fuel cell power plants: A molten carbonate fuel cell system in which the fuel cell stack(s) is (are) enclosed within a containment vessel and in which a burner exhaust is used to control the system operating pressure is described. Moreover, highly reliable, simple and low-cost differential pressure control method never affected by service interruption... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20080311468 - Optimized cooling tube geometry for intimate thermal contact with cells: A battery pack thermal management system for use in an electrical vehicle is disclosed. The battery pack thermal management system includes a manifold and a plurality of cells arranged in a predetermined pattern within the battery pack. The system also includes a cooling tube having a scallop like outer surface... Agent: Michael T. Raggio Raggio & Dinnin, P.C.

20080311469 - Pouch-type rechargeable battery and its method of manufacture: A pouch-type rechargeable battery and its method of manufacture includes: an electrode assembly having a resin layer attached to the outer surface of an electrode tap, and a pouch having a sealing part formed on the ends of the top and bottom thereof, housing the electrode assembly. The resin layer... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080311470 - Battery structures and related methods: An electrochemical device includes a first electrode in electrical communication with a first current collector, a second electrode in electrical communication with a second current collector and a crosslinked solid polymer in contact with the first and second electrodes. At least one of the first and second electrodes includes a... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080311471 - Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and production method thereof: A method for producing a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprising the steps of: (i) mixing a positive electrode active material, a first binder A and a dispersion medium to prepare a paste A, the active material comprising a lithium-containing transition metal oxide; (ii) mixing a conductive agent, a second binder... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080311472 - Anode and method of manufacturing the same, and battery and method of manufacturing the same: A battery capable of improving cycle characteristics is provided. An anode includes: an anode current collector; an anode active material arranged on the anode current collector; and a coating arranged on the anode active material layer, in which the coating includes at least one of a metal salt represented by... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080311473 - Cathode active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and manufacturing method thereof, and a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery that uses cathode active material: The present invention provides a cathode active material that makes possible a high capacity nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery that has excellent discharge load characteristics that provide both good cycle characteristics and thermal stability. The cathode active material comprises a lithium nickel composite oxide having the compositional formula LiNi1−aMaO2 (where, M... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080311474 - Battery and method for producing the same: Disclosed are a batter and a manufacturing method of the battery. The battery includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a first can electrically contacting the first electrode, a second can electrically contacting the second electrode, and a body. The first and second cans are fusion-bonded with the body to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080311475 - Charging a lithium ion battery: A lithium titanate-based electrochemical cell is charged by adding an electrolytic solution to the lithium titanate-based electrochemical cell to form an activated electrochemical cell. Current is provided to the activated electrochemical cell to charge the activated electrochemical cell to a first state of charge for a first period of time.... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080311476 - Electrode and electrochemical device: An electrode has a current collector, and an active material-containing layer provided on the current collector and containing active material particles and ceramic particles, and a weight concentration of the ceramic particles to the active material particles in a surface part in the active material-containing layer on the opposite side... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080311478 - Lithium secondary battery:

20080311477 - Process for manufacturing a lithiated electrode, lithiated electrode that can be obtained by this process, and its uses: It also relates to a lithiated electrode that can be obtained by this process and to the uses of this electrode: production of thin-film lithium batteries, especially microbatteries for chip cards, “smart” labels, horological articles, miniaturized communications tools, microsystems; production of thin-film supercapacitors and electrochromic cells.... Agent: Brinks, Hofer, Gilson & Lione

20080311479 - Electrode with enhanced safety and electrochemical device having the same: Disclosed is an electrode having a current collector coated with an electrode active material, wherein non-coated regions of the electrode and boundary regions of intermittently pattern-coated electrodes are coated with a porous active layer including a mixture of inorganic particles and a binder polymer. The electrode of the present invention... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080311480 - All-solid-state lithium-ion secondary battery and production method thereof: An all-solid-state lithium-ion secondary battery has an anode, a cathode, a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, and at least one of a first intermediate layer disposed between the anode and the solid electrolyte layer, and a second intermediate layer disposed between the cathode and the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080311481 - Nonaqueous electrolyte for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary batter using the same: wherein, R1 and R2 represent, respectively, alkylene groups, n and m represent integers of 1 to 10, and A is an aromatic hydrocarbon in which the number of carbons is 5 to 9 or O. When the lithium secondary battery is kept at high voltage and temperature, the electrolyte additive... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080305367 - Battery pack: A battery pack including: a bare cell, a case to house the bare cell, having at least one hole formed therein; a protection circuit board connected to bare cell; an adhesive applied onto the case, and to the bare cell via the hole, and a label attached to the bare... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080305368 - Fuel cell stack: A fuel cell stack includes a load receiver provided at an outer end of a fuel cell unit, a guide receiver provided in a box, and a pressure receiver provided in at least one corner in the box. The guide receiver abuts against the load receiver for receiving the external... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20080305369 - Fuel cell operating method and apparatus for the same: There is a problem in that a gas pressure in an oxygen container of an oxygen supply device is high, thereby causing a mounting cost for charging gas into the oxygen container. Further, there is also a problem in terms of safety at a time of operation. A hydrogen occluding... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080305370 - Fuel cell system and method of operating a fuel cell: The invention provides an improved fuel cell system and a method of operating a fuel cell, which ensure that the fuel cell can be operated at high efficiency without irreversible damage. The fuel cell system according to the invention has at least one fuel cell with a fuel cell stack... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080305371 - System and method for carbon neutral or carbon positive production and use of hydrogen gas: A system and method for the production and use of hydrogen to obtain sufficient energy to negate or obtain a positive carbon unit balance. Waste is converted into a synthesis gas and heat energy using a plasma converter. The heat energy is transformed into electrical energy. The synthesis gas is... Agent: Strasburger & Price, LLP

20080305372 - Water vapor transport power generator: An improved system for generating electrical power using a fuel cell. More particularly, a system for generating hydrogen gas by reacting water vapor with a substantially non-fluid substance and transporting the generated hydrogen gas to the fuel cell which generates electrical power. Reacting water vapor with the non-fluid hydrogen generating... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080305373 - Vaporizer and power generation apparatus and electronic equipment in which vaporizer is provided: Disclosed in a vaporizer including a gas-liquid separation film which separates a gas included in a supplied liquid and which allows the separated gas to pass through the gas-liquid separation film and a heating unit which is provided at a downstream side of the gas-liquid separation film and which heats... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080305374 - Cooling device for membrane fuel cells: The cooling device of the present invention is intercalated to the fuel cells assembled in a stack and comprises a planar, elastically deformable, conductive and porous element capable of ensuring both the passage of a suitable coolant and the electrical continuity between the walls delimiting the same. The planar conductive... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080305375 - Primary zinc air battery and primary zinc air cell thereof: A primary zinc air battery includes a case, an air inlet, an air outlet, a plurality of primary zinc air cells, an electric socket and a fan. Both the air inlet and the air outlet are disposed on the case. The primary zinc air cells are disposed in the case... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080305376 - Electrode for fuel cell and fuel cell employing the same: Provided are an electrode for a fuel cell and a fuel cell employing the electrode, the electrode comprising a catalyst layer including: a catalyst; a material having stronger binding force to anions than the catalyst; and a binder. According to the electrolyte for a fuel cell, electrochemical surface area of... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080305377 - Long metallic nanowires, methods of making, and use thereof in proton exchange membrane fuel cell: A method and apparatus for making a metallic nanofiber structure are disclosed. The method includes the steps of: providing a first solution including a first material and a second material, wherein the second material includes at least one metal; forming the first solution into composite fibers including the first material... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20080305379 - Polymer electrolyte membrane for fuel cell and membrane-electrode assembly and fuel cell including the same: Disclosed is a polymer electrolyte membrane for a fuel cell that has a high ionic conductivity even at a high temperature without humidification. The polymer electrolyte membrane comprises a film composed of a polyimide copolymer containing phenylbenzimidazole, and an acid impregnated within the polyimide copolymer film. Also disclosed is another... Agent: Summa, Allan & Additon, P.A.

20080305378 - Proton exchange membrane fuel cell: A proton exchange membrane fuel cell is described and which includes a proton exchange membrane having at least one gas diffusion layer which is juxtaposed relative thereto, and which is fabricated, at least in part, of a porous, electrically conductive, inorganic material which is selected from the group comprising metal... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20080305384 - Electrode-membrane-frame assembly for fuel cell, polyelectrolyte fuel cell and manufacturing method therefor: An electrode-membrane-frame assembly for a polyelectrolyte fuel cell which is held between one pair of separators and constitutes an electric cell module in the fuel cell is constituted of a membrane electrode assembly, a first frame body which has a separator-side surface on which a sealing member for sealing between... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080305381 - Flat fuel cell combining a runner plate and conducting layer: The present invention relates to a flat fuel cell combining runner plates and a conducting layer. The flat fuel cell includes two runner plates and a conducting layer between the runner plates. There are conducting blocks embedded into the predefined locations on the assembly surfaces of two runner plates. A... Agent: Egbert Law Offices

20080305382 - Flow-field plate and fuel cell stack using the same: Disclosed is a flow-field plate and fuel cell stack using the same. The flow-field plate (19) of the present invention comprises a center hole (5) formed at the center of flow-field plate, a inlet (6) and a outlet (7) formed on two positions near the outer edge of flow-field plate,... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080305380 - Fuel cell compression retention system using compliant strapping: A fuel cell system is provided including a fuel cell stack having a first end and second end. The fuel cell stack includes at least one fuel cell having a membrane-electrode assembly disposed between adjacent gas diffusion layers. The fuel cell system further includes a compression retention system having a... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20080305383 - Fuel cell unit box and fuel cell: A stack hinge is formed by stacking a plurality of plate hinge parts each having the same shape. Each of the plate hinge parts has a tab having a pin through hole for engagement with a joint pin and a joint portion joined to a panel of a unit box.... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20080305385 - Fuel cell separator plate surface treatment by laser ablation: A composite separator plate for use in an electrochemical fuel cell as well as a method of forming same is disclosed. The plate may be formed of polymeric material and electrically conductive material having a non-conductive polymeric outer layer by compression molding, or alternately of a metallic material having an... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080305386 - Devices for storing energy in the mechanical deformation of nanotube molecules and recovering the energy from mechanically deformed nanotube molecules: An energy storage device includes at least one nanotube. An energy storage mechanism converts energy external to the device into the appropriate levels of strain on the at least one nanotube to produce stored energy, and an energy recovery mechanism converts the energy released by relaxing the at least one... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080305387 - Cordless power tool system: A battery pack with a housing, at least one battery cell contained within the housing, a first terminal and a second terminal. The housing includes a substantially ovoidal surface which is substantially symmetric about a first axis of symmetry and a second axis of symmetry which is transverse to the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080305388 - Power train battery assembly of an electric, fuel-cell or hybrid vehicle: A power train battery assembly of an electric, fuel-cell or hybrid vehicle, said assembly having a plurality of battery cells (16), each encased in an individual and externally-closed cell housing (18), that are combined into a cell stack and moreover having at least one pipe (36) conducting cooling fluid for... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.C.

20080305389 - Batteries with permanently wet-able fine fiber separators: Alkaline batteries are disclosed that advantageously include separators comprising at least one porous layer of fine fibers having a diameter of between about 50 nm and about 3000 nm that provide improved combinations of reduced thickness, dendritic barrier against short-circuiting and low ionic resistance as compared with known battery separators.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20080305390 - Battery pack: Disclosed herein is a battery pack including a roughly rectangular casing, a main circuit board disposed at a bottom surface of the casing, and cylindrical battery cells arranged in two rows and two layers over the main circuit board and connected in series.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080305391 - Anode and battery: A battery capable of improving cycle characteristics and a manufacturing yield is provided. An anode includes: an anode current collector; and an anode active material layer arranged on the anode current collector, in which the anode active material layer includes an anode active material including a plurality of pores, and... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080305392 - Surface treated steel sheet for battery case, battery case and battery using the case: A surface treated steel sheet for a battery case, which has a diffusion layer of a nickel-phosphorus alloy or a nickel-cobalt-phosphorus alloy formed on the outermost layer of the inside surface of a plated steel sheet for a battery case; a battery case which is produced through forming the surface-treated... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080305393 - Lithium-ion secondary battery: A lithium-ion secondary battery where a current collecting member and a foil are joined to each other securely while damage of the foil is suppressed is provided. The lithium-ion secondary battery is provided with a winding group obtained by winding a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate via... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20080305394 - Secondary battery and method of producing the secondary battery: A secondary battery includes: an electric cell layer including a stack structure sequentially including: a positive electrode layer, a separator layer, and a negative electrode layer having an electrolyte higher in conductivity than an electrolyte of at least one of the separator layer and the positive electrode layer.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080305395 - Anode and secondary battery: A battery capable of improving cycle characteristics is provided. An anode includes: an anode current collector, and an anode active material layer arranged on the anode current collector, in which the anode active material layer includes an anode active material including silicon (Si), and including a pore group with a... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080305396 - Lead-acid battery expanders with improved life at high temperatures: An expander formulation for use in a battery paste incorporates an organic component or lignosulfonate characterized by improved resistance to high temperature degradation. Battery plates made from battery pastes which incorporate this expander formulation exhibit considerable improvements in the life of the batteries, especially at high battery operating temperatures. The... Agent: Patula & Associates, P.C.

20080305397 - Negative active material for lithium secondary battery, and lithium secondary battery including same: The present invention relates to negative electrode materials for rechargeable lithium batteries and to rechargeable lithium batteries including the same. The negative electrode materials improve the capacity characteristics and cycle-life characteristics of the rechargeable lithium batteries. The negative electrode material includes a negative active material capable of intercalating and deintercalating... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080305398 - Stacked nonaqueous electrolyte battery, manufacturing method thereof and stacking apparatus therefor: A stacked nonaqueous electrolyte battery, a method of manufacturing the battery, and a stacking apparatus for the battery are provided. The stacked nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes a plurality of electrode bodies alternately stacked, each of the electrode bodies including an anode and a cathode laminated through a separator. The separator... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080305399 - Electrolytic organic glass, its manufacturing process and device comprising it: s

20080305400 - Lithium battery operating at very low temperature: A composition useful as an electrolyte in a lithium-ion battery comprises at least one C3-C6 carbonate or a lactone, at least one unsaturated cyclic carbonate in a v/v proportion less than 5% of the volume of the other constituents of the composition, lithium hexafluorophosphate (LiPF6) and at least 0.2 mol/l... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080305401 - Lithium-ion electrolytes with fluoroester co-solvents: An embodiment lithium-ion battery comprising a lithium-ion electrolyte of ethylene carbonate; ethyl methyl carbonate; and at least one solvent selected from the group consisting of trifluoroethyl butyrate, ethyl trifluoroacetate, trifluoroethyl acetate, methyl pentafluoropropionate, and 2,2,2-trifluoroethyl propionate. Other embodiments are described and claimed.... Agent: Seth Z. Kalson C/o Intollevate

20080305402 - Method for producing difluorophosphate, non-aqueous electrolyte for secondary cell and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell: The difluorophosphate is produced by reacting lithium hexafluorophosphate with a carbonate in a nonaqueous solvent. The liquid reaction mixture resulting from this reaction is supplied for providing the difluorophosphate in a nonaqueous electrolyte comprising a nonaqueous solvent which contains at least a hexafluorophosphate as an electrolyte lithium salt and further... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080305403 - Non-aqueous electrolyte and secondary battery comprising the same: Disclosed is a non-aqueous electrolyte comprising: a non-aqueous cyclic solvent; a catalyst for polymerization, which is activated depending on temperature or voltage to induce the polymerization of the non-aqueous cyclic solvent; and an electrolyte salt. Also, a secondary battery comprising the non-aqueous electrolyte is disclosed. The non-aqueous electrolyte does not... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080299417 - Fuel cell component: A fuel cell component, such as an interconnect for solid oxide fuel cells, consists of a metallic substrate, such as stainless steel, and a coating, which in turn comprises at least one metallic layer and one reactive layer. The fuel cell component is produced by providing the different layers, preferably... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080299418 - Fuel cell stack with improved end cell performance: A fuel cell stack that includes a gas diffusion media for the end cells in the stack that has less of an intrusion into the flow field channels of the end cells that the other cells, so as to increase the flow rate through the flow channels in the end... Agent: MillerIPGroup, PLC General Motors Corporation

20080299419 - Laminated exfoliated graphite composite-metal compositions for fuel cell flow field plate or bipolar plate applications: An electrically conductive laminate composition for fuel cell flow field plate or bipolar plate applications. The laminate composition comprises at least a thin metal sheet having two opposed exterior surfaces and a first exfoliated graphite composite sheet bonded to the first of the two exterior surfaces of the metal sheet... Agent: Bor Z. Jang

20080299420 - Fuel cell systems with maintenance hydration by displacement of primary power: Fuel cell systems that perform maintenance hydration by supplying power to satisfy at least part of an applied load from an energy-consuming assembly while a primary power source is in electrical communication with and available to supply power to the energy-consuming assembly to satisfy the portion of the applied load... Agent: Dascenzo Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080299422 - Hydrogen sensor cell for detecting contaminants: A fuel cell stack includes at least one fuel cell having a fuel inlet for directing a hydrogen fuel to the fuel cell to generate electric current; a sensor cell having an anode, a cathode and a membrane between the anode and the cathode, the anode being communicated with the... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20080299421 - Method for analyzing the performance of mea and segmented cell used for the method: A separation plate having a gas flow path is segmented for analyzing MEA performance without segmenting an electrode or a gas diffusion layer. In advance, a MEA is operated for a long time in a real stack environment using a typical separation plate which is not segmented, and then the... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080299424 - Carbon monoxide clean-up in a pem fuel cell system: A fuel processor system contains an autothermal reactor (ATR) that produces a hydrogen-rich first gas stream containing carbon monoxide. Downstream of the ATR, a pressure swing adsorber produces a second hydrogen-rich gas stream containing 5 ppm carbon monoxide or more. Downstream of the PSA, there is a methanation reactor sized... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080299423 - Fuel cell systems with maintenance hydration: Fuel cell systems, and more particularly to fuel cell systems with fuel cell hydration provided during periods of inactivity by combining a fuel and an oxidant. In some embodiments, the systems may include at least one fuel cell with an anode region and a cathode region. The at least one... Agent: Dascenzo Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080299425 - Flow arrangement for fuel cell stacks: A flow arrangement for fuel cell stacks connects fuel cell stacks into fuel stack groups having a number of fuel cell stacks connected in parallel by their anode and cathode parts so that the inlet of the anode part of each fuel cell stack group is in connection with an... Agent: Smith-hill And Bedell, P.C.

20080299426 - Fuel cell system and method for controlling air-flow rate therein: A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell for generating electricity using a chemical reaction between hydrogen and air supplied thereto; a diluter for diluting hydrogen discharged from the fuel cell with air discharged from the fuel cell; a request load air amount calculation unit for calculating an amount of... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20080299427 - Fuel cell device and electronic apparatus system including fuel cell device: According to one embodiment, a fuel cell device includes an electromotive unit which has an anode and a cathode and generates electricity based on a chemical reaction, a fuel tank, a fuel flow path which flows fuel supplied from the fuel tank through the anode side, a gas flow path... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080299428 - Fuel cell system: A fuel cell system is provided that can suppress the degradation of the MEA and simultaneously assure the merchantability. The fuel cell system 1 includes: a fuel cell 10 that generates electric power by reacting hydrogen gas and oxidant gas; a temperature sensor 103 that detects the temperature of the... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20080299429 - Systems and methods for starting and operating fuel cell systems in subfreezing temperatures: Systems and methods for initiating use of, or starting up, fuel cell stacks in subfreezing temperatures. The fuel cell stacks include a thermal management system that is adapted to deliver a liquid heat exchange fluid into thermal communication with a fuel cell stack, such as to heat the stack during... Agent: Dascenzo Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080299435 - Fuel cell: A membrane electrode assembly is used for a planer type fuel cell. The membrane electrode assembly includes an electrolyte membrane, anodes and cathodes disposed counter to the anodes. Ends of current collectors are connected to one side of the anodes, respectively. Ends of current collectors are connected to one side... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080299432 - Fuel cell system for the supply of drinking water and oxygen: The present invention provides a fuel cell system for the supply of a vehicle with drinking water and oxygen, said fuel cell system comprising a fuel cell and an electrolysis cell with air cathode. In addition, the electrolysis cell is coupled to the fuel cell, and the fuel cell and... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20080299430 - Gas diffusion electrode and solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell: A gas diffusion electrode includes: an electrode catalyst layer 13; microporous layers 11 and 12 arranged on the electrode catalyst layer 13 and including at least two layers which are second and first microporous layers 12 and 11 formed of materials having different water repellencies, wherein the second microporous layer... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080299433 - Immobilized heteropoly acids and the use of the same for electrode stabilization and enhancement: The use of fuel cells to produce electricity are known as an environmentally clean and reliable source of energy, and show promise as an automotive power source if the polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell can be made less expensive, more durable, reduce or eliminate humidification of the reactive gases, and... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20080299431 - Membrane electrode assembly for fuel cell: A membrane electrode assembly comprises (a) a solid electrolyte polymer membrane; (b) an anode electrocatalyst layer disposed at one surface of the membrane and comprising a first electrocatalyst composition comprising carbon substrate particles and nanoparticles comprising an alloy of platinum and ruthenium disposed on the surface of the substrate particles;... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20080299434 - Solid oxide type fuel cell and manufacturing method thereof: A solid oxide type fuel cell has a solid electrolyte substrate with a flat plate shape, and a cathode electrode layer is formed in a flat plate shape on one surface of the substrate and an anode electrode layer is formed in a flat plate shape on the other surface.... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080299436 - Composite ceramic electrolyte structure and method of forming; and related articles: A composite ceramic electrolyte is provided. The composite ceramic electrolyte has a microstructure, which comprises a first ceramic composition comprising a plurality of nano-dimensional microcracks, and a second ceramic composition substantially embedded within at least a portion of the plurality of nano-dimensional microcracks. The first and the second compositions are... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080299437 - Polyelectrolyte membrane for electrochemical applications, in particular for fuel cells: A polyelectrolyte membrane may include at least one styrene polymer or copolymer having a syndiotactic configuration and having sulfonic groups. The at least one styrene polymer or copolymer may be made in the form of a film in clathrate form. The film may include less than about 0.1% sulfonate groups... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080299439 - Electrochemical power source designs and components: Provided, among other things, is ion-conductive membrane assembly comprising: a porous core; and sandwiching the porous core therebetween, two ion-conductive membranes; wherein the porous core is adapted to retain an ion-conductive liquid.... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20080299438 - Flow channel plate: A flow channel plate adapted to a fuel cell apparatus is provided. The flow channel plate includes a separating film and a plurality of bar supporting members. The separating film is disposed between two components of the fuel cell apparatus, and the bar supporting members lean against the separating film... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080299440 - Fuel cell stack: A planar fuel cell stack, having generators that generate electricity by an electrochemical reaction of a fuel and an oxidizing agent, the generators arranged on a same plane. A beading unit and a protruding portion are formed on a fastening plate and a separator so as to improve structural stiffness... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080299441 - Stack for fuel cell: A fuel cell stack has an electrical generator including at least one unit cell between a pair of opposing end plates having a length and a width, wherein an aspect ratio of the length of the end plate to the width of the end plate is between about 1 to... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080299442 - Bonding structure of separator and fuel cell: A fuel cell includes a plurality of unit cells, each having a membrane electrode assembly and a separator stacked with an intervening first sealing member and the unit cells being stacked on one another with an intervening second sealing member. The first sealing member is spread on and along a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080299443 - Stack for fuel cell: A fuel cell stack including an electricity generating unit for generating electrical energy by electrochemically reacting a fuel and an oxidizing agent, the electricity generating unit including: a first separator; a second separator; a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) between the first separator and the second separator, each of the first... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080299444 - Hydrogen storage electrode: An electrode includes a hydrogen storage material wherein the electrode has a discharge capacity of greater than about 200 mHh/g. The electrode may include an electrically conductive substrate; and a material capable of storing hydrogen on a surface thereof supported by the substrate. The hydrogen storage material is formed by... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080299445 - Secondary battery pack: A chargeable and dischargeable lithium cell and the filter unit capable of absorbing flammable materials are housed inside a casing. When an overvoltage is impressed from a battery charger to a battery pack and then internal gases inside the lithium cell are discharged out of an explosion-proof valve, the flammable... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080299446 - Coolant manifold: A battery assembly may include a cooling system assembly having first and second battery modules and a coolant manifold in fluid communication therewith. The first battery module may include a first coolant flow path and the second battery module may include a second coolant flow path. The coolant manifold may... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080299447 - Molten salt and thermal battery: The present invention provides a molten salt containing at least two salts, and having a melting point of 350° C. or more and 430° C. or less and an electric conductivity at 500° C. of 2.2 S/cm or more. The present invention also provides a thermal battery including the molten... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080299448 - Battery unit with temperature control device: A battery unit (10) includes a plurality of trays (14) connected to one another and positioned on top of one another to define sides (16, 18, 20, 22) and top (24) and a bottom of the battery unit (10). A plurality of cells (12) are adjacent one and the other... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.C.

20080299449 - Cooling structure of lithium ion secondary battery system: The present invention relates to a cooling structure of a lithium ion secondary battery system. The cooling structure of a lithium ion secondary battery system according to the present invention provides cooling channels for lithium battery unit cells accommodated by a laterally partitioned arrangement of main frames, each having a... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080299450 - Lithium secondary battery: A lithium secondary battery that can improve safety of the battery. The lithium secondary battery comprises a jelly-roll type electrode assembly including first and second electrode plates having different polarities, and a separator interposed between the electrode plates. A porous ceramic film is coated on an active material of the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080299451 - Battery and battery module: A power-generating element containing a stacked electrode assembly (10) and an electrolyte solution is disposed in an accommodating space of a plastic battery case (13). The entirety of the battery case (13) is enclosed air-tightly and liquid-tightly in an outer cover made of an aluminum laminate. An opening (13A) of... Agent: Kubovcik & Kubovcik

20080299453 - Battery module: A battery module has a plurality of prismatic batteries (2) stacked in a thickness direction. Two plates (3, 4) are provided between each of the batteries (2), and each of the batteries (2) is compressed by shifting the two plates (3, 4) in directions away from each other. A pair... Agent: Kubovcik & Kubovcik

20080299452 - Battery pack: The battery pack is made up by stacking vertically a plurality of electrically-series-connected flat-plate-like battery cells so as to attain a given voltage and a given capacity. Interlayer members are interposed between each battery cell stacked. The interlayer member functions as a surface pressure distributing member to thereby equalize surface... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080299454 - Lithium secondary battery: A lithium secondary battery includes two electrode plates having different polarities and has a ceramic film provided on one electrode plate of the two, wherein the electrode plate coated with the ceramic film has a front edge positioned ahead of a front edge of another electrode plate, and/or has a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080299455 - Electric storage device and fabricating method therefor: An electrode laminate unit 12 of an electric storage device 10 is composed of positive electrodes 14 and negative electrodes 15, which are alternately laminated, and a lithium electrode 16 is arranged at the outermost part of the electrode laminate unit 12 so as to oppose to the negative electrode... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080299456 - Non-aqueous air battery and catalyst therefor: A non-aqueous air battery of the present invention includes a negative electrode for which a material which absorbs and releases lithium ions is used as a negative electrode active material, a positive electrode for which oxygen is used as a positive electrode active material, and a non-aqueous electrolyte disposed between... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080299457 - Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and method for manufacturing positive electrode of nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a positive electrode including a positive electrode current collector carrying a positive electrode material mixture layer thereon, a negative electrode including a negative electrode current collector carrying a negative electrode material mixture layer thereon, a separator provided between the positive electrode and the negative... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080299458 - Hydrogen storage alloy for alkaline battery and production method thereof, as well as alkaline battery: The hydrogen storage alloy for an alkaline battery of the present invention includes: an element R selected from the Group IV and the rare earth elements including Y and excluding La; and an element M consisting of at least one of Co, Mn, and Zn. The hydrogen storage alloy is... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080299459 - Fabrication method of electrode material, electrode material, and non-aqueous lithium ion secondary battery: The ions other than a lithium ion and having a greater ion radius is interposed, before the lithium ion is doped, as an interlayer securing member in a vanadium oxide having a layered crystal into which the lithium ion can be doped. Since the interlayer securing member is interposed, the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080299460 - Anode of lithium battery and method for fabricating the same: An anode of a lithium battery includes a supporting member and a carbon nanotube film disposed on a surface of the support member. The carbon nanotube film includes at least two overlapped and intercrossed layers of carbon nanotubes. Each layer includes a plurality of successive carbon nanotube bundles aligned in... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080299461 - Secondary battery including positive electrode or negative electrode coated with a ceramic coating portion: A lithium secondary battery including: an electrode assembly including a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, and a separator; and a case for containing the electrode assembly, wherein a ceramic coating portion is on at least one surface of the positive electrode plate or the negative electrode plate, wherein... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080299462 - Lead-acid battery separator having enhanced stiffness: A lead-acid battery separator comprised of a porous membrane substrate having a front surface and a back surface and said front surface having a plurality of ribs. To enhance the substrate's stiffness, one or more coatings of a stiffening material may be adhered to the ribs on the substrate's surface.... Agent: Hammer & Associates, P.C.

20080299463 - Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery that even at high-rate discharge wherein discharge is carried out at relatively large current, can attain an increase of discharge capacity. There is provided a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprising positive electrode (2), the positive electrode (2) including a collector and, superimposed thereon, a mixture... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP