Valence Technology Inc. (Austin, TX) announced the appointments of Terry Standefer as vice president of worldwide operations and Deepak Swamy as chief system architect. Standefer and Swamy bring more than 18 years' and 14 years' experience, respectively, to Valence in operations and systems engineering. Stephan Godevais, Valence's president and CEO, said, "I am pleased with […]
Energy Conversion Devices Inc. (ECD, Troy, MI) announced that, pursuant to the stock purchase agreement between ECD and Texaco Inc. (Detroit, MI), Texaco has exercised its right to maintain its 20-percent interest in ECD. This share purchase follows an increase in ECD's outstanding common stock due to the exercise of warrants on July 31, 2001. […]
DCH Technology Inc. (Valencia, CA) announced that Daido Metal Ltd., (Nagoya, Japan) DCH's joint venture partner for the manufacture and sale of fuel cells in the Asian markets, has sold its first 12W/12V portable fuel cells to targeted customers in the Japanese automotive, electronics manufacturing and highway sign industries. The fuel cells were sold through […]
Mechanical Technology Inc. (Albany, NY) announced it has received an award of more than $4.6 million from the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The award is to carry out a two-and-one-half year, $9.3 million cost-shared program to research and develop a micro fuel cell for use in […]
IdaTech (Bend, OR), a subsidiary of IDACORP Inc. (Boise, ID), has received its fifth fuel cell system patent, US Patent No. 6,242,120, which covers the mechanism that synchronizes the purging of the fuel cell stack with the rate at which water is produced. It protects IdaTech's system from unauthorized use or manufacture. "Our optimized purge […]
Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd. (CFCL, Australia) has opened a new 35,000sqft engineering facility, bringing the company another step closer to market. The new building will be used to assemble prototypes and to carry out tests on the company's market-entry product, a 40kW fuel-cell-based electricity generator. The first prototype should be completed by June next year. […]
Maxim Integrated Products Inc. introduced its new MAX1916 triple-output current regulator intended for biasing white LEDs in cellular phones and PDAs with even brightness. It provides improved matching compared to traditional ballast resistor schemes and enables extended battery life. The device regulates three LED currents with >±0.3 percent matching. It also enables powering of white […]
DCH Technology Inc. (Valencia, CA) announced it has signed a stock purchase agreement with Swartz Private Equity LLC (Atlanta, GA) for up to two million shares of DCH common stock. Under the agreement, DCH retains the right to determine if, when, and how much common stock Swartz may purchase off DCH's shelf registration already in […]
NEC Corp. (Japan), the Japan Science and Technology Corp. (JST, Japan), and the Institute of Research and Innovation (IRI) announced that they have developed a small-sized fuel cell for mobile terminals using nanotechnology. The fuel cells are solid polymer fuel cells with methanol used as the fuel. The cell generates electric energy by producing a […]
Energy Conversion Devices Inc. (ECD, Troy, MI) is in the process of moving to a new, larger consolidated facility located in Rochester Hills, MI. The new headquarters will house the corporate offices and staff; the financial and accounting departments; and the legal, patent, purchasing, marketing, shareholder relations and human resources departments. The move is expected […]
Plug Power Inc. (Latham, NY) announced that it has finalized new agreements with GE Fuel Cell Systems LLC (GEFCS, Schenectady, NY), GE MicroGen Inc. (Latham, NY), GE Power Systems Equities (GEPS, Latham, NY) and DTE Energy Technologies (Farmington Hills, MI) in line with the memoranda of understanding (MOU) announced earlier this year. Under the new […]
DCH Technology Inc. (Valencia, CA) announced that the California Air Resources Board is funding the implementation and demonstrations of an electric water taxi powered by DCH Enable fuel cells. The DCH product used to power the water taxi is an Enable hydrogen PEM fuel cell capable of generating 1kW continuously with peak power approaching 2kW. […]
Honda Motor Co. (Tokyo) unveiled a new Civic subcompact model equipped with a gas engine and electric motor that enables drivers to travel much farther on the same amount of gasoline. The vehicle runs on both gas and electricity, recharging itself while it's moving, and uses gas as fuel. The hybrid Civic, which goes on […]
H Power Corp. (Clifton, NJ) announced the formation of H Power Japan in partnership with Mitsui and Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and Mitsui and Co. (USA) Inc. Both parties will have a 50 percent ownership in the newly created company, which will be a Japanese corporation headquartered in Tokyo. H Power Japan's initial activity will be […]
Microsemi Corp. (Irvine, CA) announced that it has introduced a new family of dual 150mA CMOS LDO regulators for battery-powered and instrumentation applications. Designated the LX8221 family, the new regulators feature a typical dropout voltage of 175mV at 100mA, an ultra-low shutdown current that's typically less than 1uA, a choice of fixed or adjustable output […]