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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120104990 | Alkali Metal Ion Battery with Bimetallic Electrode Electrochemical cells having molten electrodes having an alkali metal provide receipt and delivery of power by transporting atoms of the alkali metal between electrode environments of disparate chemical potentials through an electrochemical pathway comprising a salt of ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120104989 | CHARGE-CONTROLLING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR A charge-controlling system and a method therefor are applicable to a backup power system having a fuel-cell-based power supply and a battery. The charge-controlling system includes a bidirectional converter, a feedback circuit, a voltage controller, a PWM generator, a ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108117 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING ELECTRICITY IN LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS CARRIER Provided is an apparatus for generating electricity required by an LNG carrier which stores LNG, which is obtained by liquefying natural gas to ultra low temperature in a gas field, in an LNG storage tank and carries the stored LNG. The apparatus includes: a reformer re... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105252 | Wireless traffic sensor system Embodiments of the present invention provide a wireless traffic sensor system. The system includes a plurality of wireless traffic sensors collecting traffic information from one or more vehicles that pass by; and at least one wireless communication device that receives... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120081066 | THERMOELECTRIC POWER GENERATING EXHAUST SYSTEM An exhaust system for generating power includes a conduit in communication with a first atmosphere having a first temperature and through which said first atmosphere can flow, the conduit having an inner surface exposed to said first atmosphere and an exterior surface e... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120068660 | OPERATION METHOD OF POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM USING SECONDARY BATTERY A battery-used power grid operation method for handling a home-use secondary battery as a virtual battery of medium- to large-scale and for lessening a necessary cell capacity to thereby enable efficient absorption of an output variation of renewable energy-derived elec... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120068661 | TRANSPORTABLE ELECTRICITY GENERATION UNIT AND METHOD FOR GENERATING ELECTRICITY USING SAID UNIT This invention relates to a transportable electricity generation unit (30) suitable to supply electric power to an external load (51). Said electricity generation unit (30) comprises: a photovoltaic generation unit (1) and/or an aerogenerator... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120048343 | OUTDOOR BASE STATION HOUSE HAVING THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS An outdoor base station house having thin film solar cells, comprising: a sentry-box-shaped building body, at least a thin film solar cell, and a power source module. Said sentry-box-shaped building body is provided with a top portion, and said thin film solar cells are... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120049783 | DATA CENTER AND AUXILIARY POWER SUPPLY UNIT THEREOF An auxiliary power supply unit of a data center includes a thermoelectric chip module and a direct current/alternating current (DC/AC) voltage converter connected to the thermoelectric chip module. The thermoelectric chip module includes a number of thermoelectric chips... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120048755 | Efficiently compartmentalized box for multiple functions A box includes a casing, a front compartment recessed in a front portion of the casing for storing a portable electronic device including cellular phone in the front compartment; an upper compartment formed in an upper portion of the casing for storing namecards or note... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120042996 | Carrying bag with solar cell phone recharger and lighting A carrying bag includes: (a) a main carrying bag housing having an inside storage compartment and having an access opening to the inside storage compartment; (b) a solar panel located on an outside of the housing and wiring from the solar panel to a solar power storing ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120042936 | SOLAR GENERATOR The invention relates to a solar generator having a supporting structure, particularly a bicycle trailer, on which at least one wheel (2) is attached, having a solar module (3) and at least one electrical module (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), characterized in ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120038313 | Fuel Cell Based Hybrid Electric Renewable Micro Power Pack A fuel cell based hybrid power pack is disclosed. In one aspect, a device includes an energy storage unit operatively coupled to a load of a battery operated device for delivering electric energy to the load, where the battery operated device operates based on the elect... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120038210 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ELECTRIC FLOATING STORAGE AND OFFLOADING An Electric Floating Storage and Offloading system comprises a floating vessel that may be moored at a location convenient for connection to the power grid and which supports an array of grid-scale batteries or other energy storage devices and has means for delivering s... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120038282 | SOLAR POWER SUPPLY DEVICE A solar power supply device includes a solar panel and a rechargeable battery. The solar panel is configured to collect and convert optical energy to electrical energy. The solar power supply device further includes an e-paper display unit, a charging connection connect... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120038312 | LEAD ACID STORAGE BATTERY AND LEAD ACID STORAGE BATTERY SYSTEM FOR NATURAL ENERGY UTILIZATION SYSTEM The life of a lead acid storage batttery is extended by changing an over-frequency equalized charge interval performed on a lead acid storage batttery, in accordance with a transition situation of a state of charge (SOC) of the lead acid storage batttery. The lead acid ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120031963 | MOBILE POWER SHARING An apparatus may include a vehicle cover having a plurality of photovoltaic cells, an inverter, a vehicle battery connector, a plug, and a switch assembly configured to operatively couple the inverter selectively to one of the vehicle battery connector and the plug base... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120025750 | Portable Solar Power System A portable solar power system, comprises a plurality of photovoltaic solar panels; storage batteries for storing energy generated by the photovoltaic solar panels; a charger operably connected to the photovoltaic solar panels for charging the storage batteries; a plural... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120025751 | PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM A photovoltaic system for generating an output voltage that is uninfluenced by varying irradiation, includes a photovoltaic source having an input terminal and an output terminal. The photovoltaic system includes a voltage adding arrangement having a first input termina... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120025836 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE FOR DETECTING DISCONNECTION OF VOLTAGE DETECTION LINES A power supply device includes battery units 10. Each unit 10 includes a battery block 2, a voltage detector 4, a power supply circuit 5, and a disconnection detector 8. The block 2 includes serially-connected battery cel... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120025752 | BATTERY CHARGER The invention provides advances in the arts with useful and novel battery charger circuits and methods providing improved energy conservation, harvesting, and utilization efficiencies.... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120019190 | PASSIVE POWER MANAGEMENT AND BATTERY CHARGING FOR A HYBRID FUEL CELL / BATTERY SYSTEM Disclosed herein is a circuit for passively managing power between a fuel cell stack and a battery in a hybrid system. The circuit includes a buck-boost converter circuit, a direct charge circuit; and a network which interconnects them. The network is configured so that... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120017476 | GREEN ENERGY SIGN LAMP A green energy sign lamp includes a lamp box and a wind power generation device. The lamp box includes an LED light emitting source, at least one advertising billboard, a current conversion module and a battery. The LED light emitting source, the current conversion modu... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120019191 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM, AND ELECTRIC VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH THE FUEL CELL SYSTEM A fuel cell system comprising a fuel cell that generates electricity through an electrochemical reaction between a fuel gas and an oxidant gas, and a control portion that controls amount of electricity generation at a time of starting the fuel cell, characterized in tha... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120019189 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHARGING BATTERY USING SOLAR BATTERY A method and an apparatus for charging a battery using a solar cell are provided. The method includes detecting an output state of the solar cell, searching a mapped charging current amount corresponding to the detected output state of the solar cell, setting a charging... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120013289 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM, AND ELECTRIC VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH THE FUEL CELL SYSTEM A fuel cell system starts a fuel cell by setting the voltage supplied to a secondary cell from a voltage transformer at an open-circuit voltage of the fuel cell, and raising the voltage of the fuel cell from a starting voltage to the open-circuit voltage, in the case wh... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120013288 | SOLAR CELL SYSTEM Disclosed herein is a solar cell system. The solar cell system includes: a solar cell module configured of a single cell and converting solar light irradiated to the cell into electric energy; and a controller boosting voltage generated from the cell and storing the boo... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120007545 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE FUEL CELL SYSTEM, AND VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH THE FUEL CELL SYSTEM A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a secondary cell, and a control portion that controls the amount of electricity generated when the fuel cell is started. A start-time target voltage is set so as to avoid the overcharged state of the secondary cell. A voltage adj... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120007542 | NO EMISSIONS SERVICE STATION FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES The present invention provides a no-emissions service station for electric vehicles including an electricity provision system for charging at least one battery inside an electric vehicle from a master charger unit and a control system in communication with the at least ... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120010894 | NO EMISSION SERVICE STATION PAYMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD The present invention provides a no-emissions service station for electric vehicles including an electricity provision system for charging at least one battery inside an electric vehicle from a master charger unit, a control system in communication with the at least one... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120007544 | SYSTEM OF A PLURALITY OF SERIES-CONNECTED FUEL CELL CONVERTER DEVICES AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SYSTEM A system of a plurality of series-connected fuel cell converter devices and a method for controlling the system are provided. The system includes a plurality of fuel cell converter devices, a series connection unit, a power control unit, a Mux control unit, and a master... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120007543 | SYSTEM OF A PLURALITY OF PARALLEL-CONNECTED FUEL CELL CONVERTER DEVICES AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SYSTEM A system of a plurality of parallel-connected fuel cell converter devices and a method for controlling the system are provided. The system includes a plurality of fuel cell converter devices, a parallel connection unit, a power control unit, a Mux control unit, and a ma... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110316471 | BATTERY CONTROL SYSTEM A battery control system includes N batteries, N control switches, a solar energy charging module, and a processing module, wherein N is a positive integer larger than one. The N batteries are arranged in parallel, each of the control switches is connected to one of the... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110316470 | WIND-DRIVEN RECHARGER FOR VEHICLE BATTERY In one illustrative embodiment, a wind-driven charging system includes a wind-driven rotation device coupled to a rotatable shaft, and a plurality of electric generators disposed at different longitudinal locations along the rotatable shaft and each of the plurality of ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110309787 | TERMINAL DEVICE AND CHARGING CONTROL METHOD A terminal device including a solar battery panel; a panel temperature-detection unit configured to detect a temperature measured near the solar battery panel; a power generation-state determination unit configured to detect an illuminance measured near the solar batter... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110309788 | WATERCRAFT COVER HAVING INTEGRATED SOLAR POWERED CHARGING COMPONENT AND MATEABLE ASSEMBLY Disclosed herein is a vehicle or watercraft cover that includes a solar battery charging component integrated therewith or attached thereto. Also disclosed is a kit for easily adapting a vehicle or watercraft to connect with a solar battery charging component.... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110309786 | GREEN ELECTRIC VEHICLE UTILIZING MULTIPLE SOURCES OF ENERGY An electrically powered, engineless, self-standing, green electric vehicle comprising at least one electric motor connected to a drive axel and a plurality of rechargeable batteries to provide stored electrical energy to said motor. The said motor is propelled and the s... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110309145 | MOBILE DEVICE USING SHORT CYCLE POWER SOURCE A mobile device comprising: a data collection device; a trigger to activate the data collection device; a communication system for wireless communications; a display for displaying information; a processor for controlling software and firmware operation; a keypad for en... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110304295 | POWER SYSTEM FOR USE WITH RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES AND THE POWER GRID A power system is provided, where a load may be powered either by a battery or a source of AC power. The output of the battery (through and inverter) and the source of AC power are both connected to the input of a toggle switch. The output of the toggle switch is connec... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110305010 | POLE WITH SOLAR MODULES Poles having solar power capabilities and, more specifically, poles that include solar modules (hereinafter “solar poles”) are disclosed. In some embodiments, the solar modules are positioned within a solar pole. A solar module can include, for example, a solar cell... | 12/15/2011 |
