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...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7998454 | Method of producing magnesium-based hydrides and apparatus for producing magnesium-based hydrides A first heat treatment is carried out in which a material powder comprising magnesium is kept in the atmosphere of hydrogen gas and the temperature and pressure in the atmosphere of hydrogen gas are maintained in the temperature-pressure region in which single Mg an... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7344690 | Imide/amide hydrogen storage materials and methods In one aspect, the invention provides a hydrogen storage composition having a hydrogenated state and a dehydrogenated state. In the hydrogenated state, such composition comprises an amide and a hydride. In a dehydrogenated state, the composition comprises an imide. | 03/18/2008 |
| 7316788 | Materials for storage and release of hydrogen and methods for preparing and using same The invention relates to materials for storing and releasing hydrogen and methods for preparing and using same. The materials exhibit fast release rates at low release temperatures and are suitable as fuel and/or hydrogen sources for a variety of applications such a... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7294323 | Method of producing a chemical hydride A method of producing a chemical hydride is described and which includes selecting a composition having chemical bonds and which is capable of forming a chemical hydride; providing a source of a hydrocarbon; and reacting the composition with the source of the hydroc... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7201789 | Nanocomposites with activated interfaces prepared by mechanical grinding of magnesium hydrides and use for storing hydrogen The invention concerns a method for preparing a nanocomposite based on magnesium and another element or compound known to absorb hydrogen and hardly miscible when ground with magnesium or its hydride, such as vanadium, titanium or niobium. The method is characterise... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7128997 | Method and system for dispensing pelletized fuel for use with a fuel cell Representative embodiments provide for a fuel activation device including a fuel storage chamber configured to store a plurality of fuel pellets arranged as a stack. A fuel dispensing device is configured to transport a fuel pellet to a fuel activation chamber. A sp... | 10/31/2006 |
| 6967012 | Imide/amide hydrogen storage materials and methods In one aspect, the invention provides a hydrogen storage composition having a hydrogenated state and a dehydrogenated state. In the hydrogenated state, such composition comprises an amide and a hydride. In a dehydrogenated state, the composition comprises an imide. | 11/22/2005 |
| 6680042 | Method of rapidly carrying out a hydrogenation of a hydrogen storage material Disclosed is a method for rapidly carrying out a hydrogenation of a material capable of absorbing hydrogen. It was discovered that when a powder of a material capable of absorbing hydrogen is ground under a hydrogen pressure, not at room temperature but a... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6478844 | Method for making hydrogen storage alloy A method for making a hydrided hydrogen storage alloy powder from component material. In the present method a material is worked at the same time it is hydrided. Working preferably involves comminution of the material.... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6342198 | Hydrogen storage composition A hydrogen storage composition has a hydrogenated state and a dehydrogenated state; in the hydrogenated state the composition comprises a metallic hydride having a metallic component which reversibly forms the hydride and a metallic heat transfer medium i... | 01/29/2002 |
| 5964965 | Nanocrystalline Mg or Be-based materials and use thereof for the transportation and storage of hydrogen Disclosed is a very light-weight, Mg and Be-based material which has the ability to reversibly store hydrogen with very good kinetics. This material is of the formula (M1-x Ax) Dy wherein M is Mg, Be or a combination of th... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5565183 | Method for the preparation of aluminum hydride (AlH3) by reacting magnesium hydride with aluminum halide A method for the preparation of aluminum hydride (AlH3) by the reaction of magnesium hydride with aluminum halide in presence of solvents is utilized with the distinguishing feature that the magnesium hydride is obtained by the reaction of magn... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5536586 | Composite hydrogen storage alloy material A composite hydrogen storage alloy material includes a hydrogen storage alloy material and a surface material bonded to the surface of the hydrogen storage alloy material. The surface material has a potential energy between those of hydride of the hydroge... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5273686 | Soluble magnesium hydrides, method of preparing them, and use thereof Organic-solvent soluble magnesium hydrides or formulas ##STR1## are prepared by catalytically hydrogenating finely powdered magnesium, optionally in the presence of a magnesium halide, in an organic solvent in the presence of their MgH2 -f... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5198207 | Method for the preparation of active magnesium hydride-magnesium hydrogen storage systems, which reversibly absorb hydrogen A method is disclosed for the preparation of active magnesium hydride-magnesium-hydrogen storage systems, which reversibly absorb hydrogen, with addition of a catalyst for the absorption of hydrogen with the formation of hydride. Magnesium hydride particl... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5162108 | Method of preparing active magnesium-hydride or magnesium hydrogen-storer systems A method of preparing an active magnesium-hydride or magnesium hydrogen-storer system which can reversibly take up H2, comprising contacting finely divided magnesium hydride or metallic magnesium with a solution of a metal complex or of a metal... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5141676 | Soluble magnesium hydrides, method of preparing them, and use thereof Organic-solvent soluble magnesium hydrides of the formulas (MgH2)n. MgQ2 (II) (MgH2)n. RMgX (III) ##STR1## are prepared by catalytically hyd... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5133929 | Intermetallic compounds and hydrides Intermetallic compounds and hydrides thereof, characterized in that they have been prepared by reacting hydrides of the elements of the main groups I, II, III and IV of the Periodic Table, magnesium hydridehalides or magnesium dialkyls having the general ... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5093101 | Method for the preparation of active magnesium hydride-magnesium-hydrogen storage systems and apparatus for carrying out the method A method for the preparation of active magnesium hydride-magnesium-hydrogen storage systems, which absorb hydrogen reversibly is disclosed. Finely divided magnesium is doped with nickel for this purpose. A pressure reactor is charged with a mixture of fin... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5069894 | Process for preparing finely divided highly reactive magnesium and use thereof The reversible preparation of active magnesium hydride MgH2 by reaction of magnesium with molecular hydrogen at a pressure of from 1 to 2 bar and at a temperature of from 150° C. to 250° C. The improvement comprises producing the magnesium by... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5061470 | Silane production from hydridomagnesium chloride Improved processes for the production of silane. Hydridomagnesium chloride and trichlorosilane are reacted in an ether solvent to co-produce silane and magnesium chloride. Recycle schemes are presented for the recovery of magnesium values.... | 10/29/1991 |
| 4957727 | Process for the production of magnesium hydrides A process for the production of hydrides of magnesium, comprising reacting magnesium with hydrogen in the presence of magnesium.... | 09/18/1990 |
| 4828606 | Process for preparing intermetallic compounds or hydrides thereof Intermetallic compounds and hydrides thereof, characterized in that they have been prepared by reacting hydrides of the elements of the main groups I, II, III and IV of the Periodic Table, magnesium hydridehalides or magnesium dialkyls having the general ... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4798718 | Method of preparing active magnesium-hydride of magnesium hydrogen-storer systems A method of preparing an active magnesium-hydride or magnesium hydrogen-storer system which can reversibly take up H2, comprising contacting finely divided magnesium hydride or metallic magnesium with a solution of a metal complex or of a metal... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4752546 | Electrochemical cell The invention relates to an electrochemical cell having a negative electrode of a stable hydride-forming material, in which a high power density at a low temperature and a rapid activation (as a function of the number of charge and discharge cycles) are o... | 06/21/1988 |
| 4749558 | Method of separating and purifying hydrogen A method of separating hydrogen from mixture with at least one gas selected from the group consisting of methane and its higher homologs, nitrogen, noble gases, CO, CO2, O2, NH3, H2 O, and H2 S, compr... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4725419 | Silane production from magnesium hydride A process for producing silane by reacting a silicon halide with highly reactive magnesium and a cyclic process for producing silane by reacting magnesium hydride with a silicon halide, reacting the magnesium halide as formed with an alkali metal to recov... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4702978 | Electrochemical cell The invention relates to an electrochemical cell having a negative electrode of a stable hydride-forming material, in which a high power density at a low temperature is obtained by adding from 5 to 45% by weight of LaNi5 or a comparable high-ca... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4699856 | Electrochemical cell The invention relates to an electrochemical cell having a negative electrode of a stable hydride-forming material, in which a high power density at a low temperature and a rapid activation (as a function of the number of charge and discharge cycles) are o... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4695446 | Method of separating and purifying hydrogen A method of separating hydrogen from mixture with at least one gas selected from the group consisting of methane and its higher homologs, nitrogen, noble gases, CO, CO2, O2, NH3, H2 O, and H2 S, compr... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4623531 | Process for producing silane A process for producing silane, whereby silicon tetrafluoride is reacted with magnesium hydride in a melt of alkali or alkaline earth halides under a hydrogen partial pressure which is greater than the dissociation pressure of the magnesium hydride at the... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4604225 | Refractory oxide hosts for a high power, broadly tunable laser with high quantum efficiency and method of making same Refractory oxide crystals having high-quantum efficiency and high thermal stability for use as broadly tunable laser host materials. The crystals are formed by removing hydrogen from a single crystal of the oxide material to a level below about 1012 | 08/05/1986 |
| 4554153 | Process for the production of magnesium hydrides A process for the production of hydrides of magnesium, comprising reacting magnesium with hydrogen in the presence of magnesium.... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4554152 | Method of preparing active magnesium-hydride or magnesium hydrogen-storer systems A method of preparing an active magnesium-hydride or magnesium hydrogen-storer system which can reversibly take up H2, comprising contacting finely divided magnesium hydride or metallic magnesium with a solution of a metal complex or of a metal... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4490348 | Method for effecting hydrogen sorption and dissociation on an adsorbent metal A method and apparatus for effecting hydrogen sorption and dissociation on an adsorbent metal at an elevated temperature, wherein the method is carried out in an apparatus including a vessel for containing an adsorbent metal, the vessel including a hydrog... | 12/25/1984 |
| 4389326 | Method of storing hydrogen in intimate mixtures of hydrides of magnesium and other metals or alloys There is provided an efficient method of storing hydrogen in materials of small mass and small volume. The products of the present invention comprise intimate mixtures (as opposed to alloys) of magnesium and other metals or alloys capable of forming hydri... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4327071 | Method of preparing potassium hydride Potassium hydride and mixtures of potassium hydride with other alkali metal hydrides are prepared by contacting hydrogen with potassium or potassium alloys with other alkali metals, dispersed in an inert fluid, in the presence of a potassium phenanthride ... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4302436 | Method of regenerating disproportionated hydrides Disclosed is a method of restoring the pressure-composition characteristics of a disproportionated hydride comprising removing substantially all hydrogen from said disproportionated hydride and maintaining said hydride in a substantially hydrogen-free env... | 11/24/1981 |
| 4300946 | Granulating and activating metal to form metal hydride A metal material, which is capable of reacting with hydrogen to form a metal hydride, is simultaneously granulated and conditioned with hydrogen to activate the metal material to a state in which it is capable of readily reacting with and absorbing hydrog... | 11/17/1981 |
| 4259110 | Process for storing of hydrogen and the use thereof, particularly in engines The invention relates to the storing of hydrogen in hydrides of metallic alloys. These alloys include besides magnesium an element chosen from the lanthanides and/or element of group IIa of the periodic classification of elements. The magnesium may be, fu... | 03/31/1981 |
