U.S. battery and fuel cell patents

Advanced Battery Technology, Feb 2001 by Seo, Eddie T

U.S. 6,155,870 (20001205), Battery jump start system with integral cord storage pouch, Craig D. Valentine, Clarke Power Products, Inc.

U.S. 6,155,889 (20001205), Battery terminal connector, Robert Scarla and John Kohutich, Lightning Audio Corp.

U.S. 6,156,080 (20001205), Method of fabricating an electrode used for a prismatic cell, Tomokazu Kumeuchi, Muneaki Nakanishi, Junji Tabuchi, and Masato Shirakata, Nippon Mori Energy Corp. (JP) and NEC Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,156,084 (20001205), System for desulfurizing a fuel for use in a fuel cell power plant, Leonard J. Bonville Jr., Charles L. DeGeorge, Peter F. Foley, Jay Garow, Roger R. Lesieur, John L. Preston Jr., and Donald F Szydlowski, International Fuel Cells, LLC.

U.S. 6,156,184 (20001205), Polymeric membrane electrochemical cell operating at temperatures above 100degC, Vincenzo Antonucci and Antonino Arico, De Nora SpA (IT).

U.S. 6,156,432 (20003.205), Carbon material for negative electrode of secondary lithium battery, process for preparing the same, and secondary lithium battery prepared from said carbon material, Akihiro Mabuchi, Hiroyuki Fujimoto, Takahiro Kasuh, and Katsuhisa Tokumitsu, Osaka Gas Co. Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,156,447 (20001205), Method for identifying a gas leak, and fuel cell system, Willi Bette and Josef Lersch, Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (DE).

U.S. 6,156,448 (20001205), High temperature fuel cell and high temperature fuel cell stack, Horst Greiner, Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (DE).

U.S. 6,156,449 (20001205), Catalyst layer for polymer electrolyte fuel cells, Ralf Zuber, Ralf Karch, Knut Fehl, and Karl-Anton Starz, Degussa-Huls Aktiengellschaft (DE).

U.S. 6,156,450 (20001205), Battery tester having printed electronic components, John C. Bailey, Eveready Battery Co., Inc.

U.S. 6,156,451 (20001205), Process for making composite ion exchange membranes, Shiobal Banerjee and John Donald Summers, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co.

U.S. 6,156,452 (20001205), Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell, Kiyomi Kozuki, Seiichi Uemoto, and Takabumi Fujii, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,156,453 (20001205), Water-repelling agent for batteries and battery, Tetsuo Shimizu, Yoshihide Higashihata, and Takayuki Nakamura, Daikin Industries, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,156,454 (20001205), Positive active material for alkaline electrolyte storage battery nickel electrodes, Patrick Bernard and Michelle Baudry, Alcatel (FR).

U.S. 6,156,455 (20001205), Method for producing positive electrodes of alkaline storage batteries, Yasuharu Yamamura, Masumi Katsumoto, and Hideo Kaiya, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,156,456 (20001205), Positive electrode active material for alkaline storage battery, Yoichi Izumi, Hiroyuki Sakamoto, Hidekatsu Izumi, and Isao Matsumoto, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,156,457 (20001205), Lithium secondary battery and method for manufacturing a negative electrode, Norio Takami, Asako Sato, and Takahisa Osaki, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP).

U.S. 6,156,458 (20001205), Solid electrolytes containing toughening agents and electrolytic cells produced therefrom, Ralph Brodd, Benjamin Chaloner-Gill, Milton Neal Golovin, Mark Isaacson, and Joseph Lundquist, Valence Technology, Inc.

U.S. 6,156,459 (20001205), Nonaqueous-electrolytic solution secondary battery, Masayuki Negoro and Jiro Tsukahara, Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,157,161 (20001205), Low cost battery charging systems, Stanley Canter, Christopher E Hoeber, and Aaron J. Mendelsohn, Space Systems/Loral, Inc.

U.S. 6,157,162 (20001205), Battery charging apparatus for electric vehicles, Kiyotaka Hayashi, Kenji Uchibori, and Akiyoshi Yamamoto, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,157,163 (20001205), Automobile charging unit for a pager, Reginald S. Blackwood.

U.S. 6,157,164 (20001205), Battery power system, Robert K. Jaworski, Robert J. Kakalec, Thomas H. Kimsey, Keku M. Mistry, and Thomas Denis O'Sullivan, Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 6,157,165 (20001205), Battery apparatus and control system therefor, Takuya Kinoshita, Hideki Miyazaki, Akihiko Emori, and Takahiro Nomura, Hitachi, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,157,166 (20001205), Battery switching circuit and a computer system having same, Shigefumi Odaohhara, Akira Fukushima, and Masaki Kobayashi, International Business Machines Corp.

U.S. 6,157,167 (20001205), Topology for individual battery cell charge control in a rechargeable battery cell array, Paul D. Schwartz, Binh Q. Le, Ark L. Lew, and Joseph J. Suter, The Johns Hopkins University.

U.S. 6,157,168 (20001205), Secondary power supply for an uninterruptible power system, Randhir S. Malik, International Business Machines Corp.

U.S. 6,157,169 (20001205), Monitoring technique for accurately determining residual capacity of a battery, Chang-Hum Lee, SamSung Electronics Co., Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 6,157,170 (20001205), Means for detecting the integrated value of current flow, a means for detecting the value of current flow and a battery pack employing those means, Masaru Noda, Takashi Takeuchi, Shinji Tanaka, Mitsunori Tsuchiya, and Takeshi Yamaguchi, Hitachi, Ltd. (JP), Hitachi Maxell, Ltd (JP), and Hitachi ULSI Systems CO., Ltd. (JP)