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06/16/17 11:33 AM

#23629 RE: Bill_ENG #23627

I admit, it is much easier to be negative about Neah Power than positive.

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For me, there is no point in being negative, so I will keep searching for positives.

Rocinante

07/14/17 1:43 PM

#23739 RE: Bill_ENG #23627

I think the patents Neah refers to for the PowerChip Battery, are U.S. patent 9184463, published in 2015 and U.S. patent 9112215.
A flow through fuel cell with anode and cathode.
The following is a quote from the 9112215 filing.

Unfortunately, existing state-of-the-art fuel cell systems are not entirely satisfactory for the production of small-scale portable direct feed fuel cell systems, in part, because of problems associated with achieving a small form factor while maintaining a relatively high power density. In addition, existing fuel cell technology has not addressed many of the concomitant problems associated with closed circulating microfluidic liquid feed fuel cell systems adapted for use with portable electronic devices. More specifically, and at the present time, there has been very little in way of research and development directed toward nitric acid regeneration fuel cell systems having a recirculating nitric acid catholyte flow stream. Previous known fuel cell systems that have contemplated the use and regeneration of a nitric acid catholyte flow stream include, for example, those systems disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,261,717, U.S. Pat. No. 3,281,274, U.S. Pat. No. 3,318,735, U.S. Pat. No. 3,350,227, U.S. Pat. No. 3,979,225, and U.S. Pat. No. 4,528,250. Most all of these systems, however, use a nitric acid catholyte flow stream that is regenerated with oxygen gas from the air; and as such, these fuel cell systems are not optimal for working within a closed recirculating microfluidic liquid feed fuel cell system adapted for use with a portable electronic device.

Accordingly, there is still a need in the art for new and improved nitric acid regeneration fuel cell systems. More specifically, there is a need for nitric acid regeneration fuel cell systems having a recirculating nitric acid catholyte flow stream that is regenerated with a secondary oxidant flow stream, and that incorporates microfluidic and microelectromechanical systems ("MEMS") technologies so as to achieve a high power density within a small form factor. The present invention fulfills these needs and provides for further related advantages.

These are some links I followed.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/two-uspto-patents-powerchip-fuel-cell-awarded-neah-power-asthana

https://www.google.com/patents/US9184463

http://patents.com/us-9112215.html

I'm pretty sure you will think this is all old stuff, but I think the publishing date is what matters, not the filing date, and these things take time.