Official Gazette, Volume 1220 (March 1999)

U.S. 5,875,883 (990304, Power system for extending the effective range of hybrid electric vehicles, Hyrum T. Jarvis and Conrad Hulme, Hyrum T. Jarvis.

U.S. 5,876,241 (990302), Horizontal battery connector, Robert Houston Frantz, The Whitaker Corp.

U.S. 5,876,469 (9, Method of heat transfer In reformer, Nobuo Moriya, Takao Kawai, Hiroshi Yagi, Ryosuke Shimizu, and Yasumasa Morita, Chiyoda Corp. (JP).

U.S. 5,876,583 (t, Method for excluding a malfunctioning elementary cell in a membrane electrolyzer or electrochemical generator, Massimo Brambilla and Claudio Mantegazza, De Nora SpA (IT).

U.S. 5,876,867 (9, Platinum skeleton alloy-- supported electrocatalyst, electrode using the electrocatalyst, and process for producing the electrocatalyst, Takashi itoh, Katsuaki Katoh, and Tuyoshi Hashimoto, NE Chemcat Corp. (JP).

U.S. 5,876,868 (9, Battery sealing structure, Katsumi Tanida, Hohsen Corp. (JP).

U.S. 5,878,869 (", Hydrogen absorbing alloy electrodes, Hiroshi Nakamura, Teruhiko Imoto, Toshikazu Yoshida, Shin Fujitani, and Ikuo Yonezu, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 5,878,870 (990302), Battery residual amount display circuit, Hisashi Kawabata, NEC Corp. (JP).

U.S. 5,878,871 (9030t, Nickel-hydrogen battery cell, and nickel-hydrogen battery comprising a plurality of nickel-hydrogen battery cells, Yoshihiro Takizawa, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP).

U.S. 5,878,872 (990302), Underwater rechargeable battery and method of manufacture, Michael D. Feezor.

U.S. 5,876,873 (990302), Sealed lead-add cells and batteries having Internal and external restraint for accommodating plate growth, Edward M. Mattan, GNB Technologies, Inc.

U.S. 5,876,874 (9, Nickel electrode for secondary battery, Jun Furukawa, Furukawa Denchi Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 5,877,600 (990302), Process for determining a desired load value for a load-dependent current generating system In an electric vehicle, Josef Sonntag, Daimler-Benz AG (DE).

U.S. 5,877,601 (990302), Control system for electric vehicle and control method therefor In which an Inverter relay is controlled at the time of its re-closing after being disconnected, Sanshiro Obara, Hiroshi Katada, Nobunori Matsudaira, Eiichi Ohtsu, and Ryoso Masaki, Hitachi, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 5,877,609 (9, Battery with multi-connection terminals and Integral fuse, Gary Keith Carter, Esoteric Audio USA.

U.S. 5,877,935 (990302), Active carbon used for electrode for organic solvent type electric double layer capacitor, Kenji Sato, Minoru Noguchi, Naohiko Oki, and Shigeki Oyama, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki-Kaisha (JP).

U.S. 5,879,125 (990309), Battery changing system, Michael S. Odell, Fairchild International Inc.

U.S. 5,879,202 (990309), Battery terminal connector, Weiping Zhao, Aluminum Company of America.

U.S. 5,879.416 (990309). Method of manufacturing battery having polygonal case, Masaya Nakamura, Norikazu Hosokawa, and Manabu Yamada, Nippondenso Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 5,879,417 (990309), Process for preparing carbon electrode for nonaqueous secondary battery, Masaya Nakamura, Norikazu Hosokawa, and Manabu Yamada, Nippondenso Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 5,879,429 (990309), Method for producing hydrogen storage alloy electrode, Yasuharu Yamamura, Norikatsu Akutsu, Yoichi Izumi, and Yoshio Moriwaki, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 5,879,520 (990309), Rotary electrodeposition apparatus, Thomas P. Griego.

U.S. 5,879,807 (990309), Graphite sheet or block material, Takao Inoue, Naomi Nishiki, and Junji Ikeda, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 5,879,826 (990309), Proton exchange membrane fuel cell, Peter A Lehman, Charles E. Chamberlin, Ronald M. Reid, and Thomas G. Herron, Humboldt State University Foundation.

U.S. 5,879,827 (990309), Catalyst for membrane electrode assembly and method of making, Mark K Debe, Gregory M. Haugen, Andrew J. Steinbach, John H. Thomas III, and Raymond J. Ziegler, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co.

U.S. 5,879,828 (990309), Membrane electrode assembly, Mark K Debe, Richard J. Poirier, Michael K Wackerfuss, and Raymond J. Ziegler, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co.

U.S. 5,879,829 (990309), Lithium cell treating apparatus, Katsunori Nishimura, Hidetoshi Honbo, Akihiro Gotoh, Mamoru Mizumoto, and Tatsuo Horiba, Hitachi, Ltd. (JP).

U.S. 5,879,830 (990309), Process for regenerating sodium sulphide from the sodium sulphate which forms In treating lead paste from exhausted batteries, Marco Olper, Massimo Maccagni, and Silvano Cossali, Ecochem Aktiengesellschaft (U).

U.S. 5,879,831 (990309), Mechanical and thermal Improvements in metal hydride batteries, battery modules and battery packs, Stanford R. Ovshinsky, Dennis A Corrigan, Srinivasan Venkatesan, Subhash K Dhar, Arthur Holland, Donn Fillmore, Un Higley, Philippe Gow, Ronald Himmler, Nick Karditsas, Kenneth Laming, and Anthony Osgood, Ovonic Battery Company, Inc.

U.S. 5,879,832 (990309), Current Interrupter for electrochemical cells, Vet H. Vu, William T. McHugh, Jane A Blasi, Lucien P. Fontaine, and Robert J. Pinault, Duracell Inc.