U.S. battery and fuel cell patents

Advanced Battery Technology, Feb 2001 by Seo, Eddie T

U.S. 6,157,171 (20001205), Voltage monitoring circuit for rechargeable battery, Gregory J. Smith, National Semiconductor Corp.

U.S. 6,157,172 (20001205), Charging method and device, Paavo Niemitalo and Sakari Siponen, Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd. (Fl).

U.S. 6,157,173 (20001205), Circuit and method for sharing current between a portable device and a battery charger, Robert Baranowski and Clayton R. Karmel, Sony Corp (JP) and Sony Electronics, Inc.

U.S. 6,157,288 (20001205), Current breaking system for vehicle, Noboru Yamaguchi, Yazaki Corp. (JP). U.S. 6,157,309 (20001205), Battery pack, Hidero Mitsui and Toshio Koyama, Sony Corp. (JP).

U.S. 6,157,316 (20001205), Selective call receiver with rechargeable battery, Kouichiro Okayama and Miki Yuyama, Kokusai Electric Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 6,157,545 (20001205), Battery connection apparatus with end projections, Mark Daniel Janninck and Brian Jon Hassemer, Motorola, Inc.

U.S. 6,157,877 (20001205), Apparatus and method for testing automotive electronic control units and batteries and related equipment, Barbara L. Jones and Paul Smith, Sun Electric UK Ltd. (GB).

U.S. 6,158,537 (20001212), Power supply system, electric vehicle with power supply system mounted thereon, and method of charging storage battery included in power supply system, Yasuhiro Nonobe, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,158,538 (20001212), Battery carrier for a traction battery of an electric vehicle, Herbert Botzelmann, Falk-Hagen Braemig, Konrad Eipper, Peter Gere, and Oskar Weiss, DaimlerChrysler AG (DE).

U.S. 6,159,042 (20001212), Electrical connector, Jia-Hung Liu and Jerry Wu, Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., I tri (TWO_

U.S. 6,159,253 (20001212), Thermally formed tab slots in a separator for a spirally-wound electrochemical cell, Jeffrey S. Lund, Medtronic, Inc.

U.S. 6,159,256 (20001212), Method 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. 6,159,389 (20001212), Polyether copolymer and crosslinked solid polymer electrolyte, Katsuhito Miura, Masanori Yanagida, Hiroki Higobashi, and Seiji Nakamura, Daiso Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 6,159,434 (20001212), Flat plate stacked-type fuel reforming apparatus, Yoshihide Gonjo, Teruo Sugimoto, and Minoru Satoh, Engineering Advancement Association of Japan Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 6,159,533 (20001212), Method of depositing a catalyst on a fuel cell electrode, Geoffrey Dearnaley and James H. Arps, Southwest Research Institute.

U.S. 6,159,624 (20001212), High-proton-conductive antimonic acid film, Kiyoshi Ozawa, Yoshio Sakka, Tetsuo Uchikoshi, and Muneyuki Amano, National Research Institute for Metals (JP).

U.S. 6,159,626 (20001212), Fuel cell system logic for differentiating between rapid and normal shutdown commands, Donald H. Keskula, Tien M. Doan, and Bruce J. Clingerman, General Motors Corp.

U.S. 6,159,627 (20001212), Bipolar separator for use in a fuel cell assembly, Chao-Yi Yuh, Michael Primerano, and Mohammad Farooque, Energy Research Corp.