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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7857875 | Autothermal reforming in a fuel processor utilizing non-pyrophoric shift catalyst A method for start-up and shut down of a fuel processor including an autothermal reformer employing a non-pyrophoric shift catalyst is disclosed. Also disclosed are a computer programmed to start-up or shut down a fuel processor including an autothermal reformer emp... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7785539 | Method of controlling a hydrogen generator A method and apparatus for use in generating hydrogen are disclosed. The apparatus includes a fuel processor capable of producing a reformate from a fuel; a hydrogen purifier capable of generating a purified hydrogen gas stream from the reformate; a compressor capab... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7645307 | Combinational control strategy for fuel processor reactor shift temperature control A method and apparatus for use in controlling the reaction temperature of a fuel processor are disclosed. The apparatus includes a fuel processor reactor, the reactor including a water gas shift reaction section; a temperature sensor disposed within the reaction sec... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7474078 | Cell maintenance device for fuel cell stacks A method and apparatus for maintaining the cells of a fuel cell stack are disclosed. The apparatus includes a fuel cell maintenance device including means for imposing a low impedance across at least one cell of a fuel cell stack, e.g., a switch, and a pulse generat... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7410710 | Firstout shutdown tracing for fuel processor control system A method and apparatus for determining which condition in a fuel processor has initiated a shutdown of the fuel processor are disclosed. In general, the apparatus generates a plurality of shutdown initiator signals, each corresponding to one of a plurality of shutdo... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7402287 | Apparatus and methods for producing hydrogen An apparatus and method for producing hydrogen. The apparatus includes a fuel processor, a purification unit and a system controller. The controller determines a calculated flow of reformate from the fuel processor and operates the purification unit based on the cal... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7318970 | Architectural hierarchy of control for a fuel processor A control technique for use in a fuel processor is disclosed. In one aspect, a control system includes a subsystem manager controller the operation of a respective physical subsystem for each of a plurality of physical subsystems in the fuel processor. The subsystem... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7215764 | Current sensing echo cancellation device A passive echo cancellation circuit for reducing echoes on a subscriber line includes an output driver adapted to drive a downstream signal on the subscriber line. First sensing circuitry is coupled to the output driver and adapted to sense a current on the subscrib... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7067333 | Method and apparatus for implementing competing control models A method for controlling a process includes determining incoming state information associated with the process. A plurality of control models associated with the process is provided. A confidence metric is determined for each of the control models based on the incom... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7043325 | Method and apparatus for determining product-specific error and tool drift The present invention provides a method and apparatus for determining product-specific model errors. The method includes determining a plurality of product model errors associated with a corresponding one of a plurality of products. The method also includes determin... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6979503 | Method and apparatus for burst disk identification The present invention provides a method and apparatus for identifying an activation of a burst disk. A pressure data or a temperature data relating to a flow is received. A determination is made whether the flow is interrupted based upon the at least one of the pres... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6968448 | Microsequencer with nested loop counters A pattern generator includes an address generator, an address topology generator, and a data topology generator. The address generator is adapted to provide a first address having a plurality of address bits. The address topology generator includes a first plurality... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6850322 | Method and apparatus for controlling wafer thickness uniformity in a multi-zone vertical furnace A method and apparatus for controlling wafer thickness uniformity in a multi-zone vertical furnace is provided. The multi-zone furnace bakes a plurality of wafers within each zone for a first bake time. A film thickness of at least one wafer baked in each zone of th... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6783760 | Combined cancer treatment methods using therapeutic conjugates that bind to aminophospholipids Disclosed is the surprising discovery that aminophospholipids, such as phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylethanolamine, are specific, accessible and stable markers of the luminal surface of tumor blood vessels. The present invention thus provides aminophospholipid-t... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6423093 | Method of insertion of keratoprostheses Disclosed is a method of insertion of keratoprostheses, and in particular, a method of surgical insertion and placement of a soft hydrogel prosthetic corneal device into the host cornea. The method of the invention provides a greatly improved rate of succ... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6265573 | Purification process A process for separating a nitramine or nitramine intermediate from water and volatile organic compounds comprises the steps of: (a) feeding a liquid stream comprising a liquid nitramine or nitramine intermediate, water, and at least one volatile organic compo... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6241022 | Control line connector The present invention is a connector which connects a first control line in a downhole well tool to a second control line. The connector may include a main body having a longitudinal bore therethrough, a tubular extension threadably secured within a mount... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6085276 | Multi-processor computer system having a data switch with simultaneous insertion buffers for eliminating arbitration interdependencies An architecture and coherency protocol for use in a large SMP computer system includes a hierarchical switch structure which allows for a number of multi-processor nodes to be coupled to the switch to operate at an optimum performance. Within each multi-p... | 07/04/2000 |
