| ENERFUEL, INC. Patent applications |
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| 20110214930 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING THE TEMPERATURE OF VEHICLE BATTERIES - Systems and methods for controlling a temperature of a plurality of batteries of a vehicle are described. The systems and methods may transfer heat from a fuel cell system to the plurality of batteries of the vehicle. The heat produced by the fuel cell system may be transferred to the plurality of batteries through at least one heat transfer system. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110136030 | HIGH TEMPERATURE PEM FUEL CELL WITH THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A high temperature proton exchange medium (PEM) fuel stack system includes features for enhancing the thermal management of the fuel cell. The fuel cell can include a plurality of membrane-electrode-assemblies (MEA) separated by bipolar plates. The upper and lower edges of the bipolar plates are configured such that a plurality of fins is formed therein. Air can be passed along the fins in the upper edges of the plates and along the fins in the lower edges in opposite directions. A plurality of channels is formed on one or both surfaces of the bipolar plates. The channels extend along a serpentine path. Except for the end plates, hydrogen is supplied to the channels on one side of each plate and air is supplied to the channels on the channels on the opposite side of each plate. Such features keep the fuel cell within acceptable temperature limits during operation. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110136026 | HYBRID POWER PLANT SYSTEM FOR VEHICLES - A vehicle power plant includes a high temperature PEM fuel cell system operatively connected to a battery pack. A power conditioner is operatively connected between the PEM fuel cell system and the battery pack. The system can include a fuel processor, such as a steam reformer or an autothermal reformer. The reformer can be designed such that it can reform a wide range of fuels. The system can provide for a vehicle with a much higher driving range at a potentially lower cost than an equivalent range battery-only electric vehicle. The integration of these components into a single system also allows the vehicle to be fuel flexible; that is, capable of being fueled with a wide range of fuels without hardware changes in the system. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110097643 | INTEGRATED PEM FUEL CELL - An integrated PEM fuel cell includes bipolar plate assemblies that utilize fiber groups that extend from the surfaces of gas impermeable plates to terminate in uncoated tips facing adjacent tips to form anodes and cathodes of an MEA assembly. The catalyst support and catalyst can be applied to the tips as beads or thin layers and joined with a membrane. The assembly can use a unified seal and include collector plates at the ends of the stacks, using similar fiber construction. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110053052 | FUEL CELL COMPOSITE FLOW FIELD ELEMENT AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME - A composite flow field element, such as a separator plate used in a high temperature air-cooled fuel cell assembly, preferably includes a metal sheet substrate of non-uniform thickness, such as a mesh, and flexible graphite layers bonded to the metal mesh substrate by an electrically conductive bonding agent. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20100236267 | WEARABLE PERSONAL AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM - A personal air conditioning device cools and moistens environmentally hot and dry blower-forced air using water vaporization occurring on external surface of a hollow fiber micro-porous membrane while water or other liquid coolant is taken from a container by means of internal capillaries of hollow fiber tubes. The device is able to deliver the pre-cooled air flow over any desired body fragment, particularly under a protective vest. | 09-23-2010 |
