Intelligent Energy Inc.

Altria Client Services LLC

Philip Morris Products S.a.

Zachary Elliott

Hossein Ostadi

Michel Bessant

Fabien Duc

Bruce Renfrew

Shaun Phillips

Eva Saade Latorre

Saad Ali

Russell H Barton

Paul Leonard Adcock

Jason L Stimits

Robert William Emmett

Iain M Fraser

Kevin M Kupcho

Christopher James Kirk

Douglas A Knight

Hao Huang

Sandra H Withers-Kirby

Piotr Marcin Kleszyk

Robert Emmett

Nathan Grange

Harry John Karmazyn

Harry J Karmazyn

Mark Braithwate

Sean Ashton

The vaporizer includes a tube element defining an inner volume for receiving an amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate, a mesh in the inner volume of the tube element, and a heater outside, the heater including an electrical resistive heater, and the heater is configured to heat the mesh and the received amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate to a temperature sufficient to volatilize at least a part of the received amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate.

Vaporizer for an aerosol-generating system and vaporizing method

A method of operating a fuel cell assembly comprising a plurality of fuel cells connected together for collectively providing power to a load, each fuel cell including an anode and a cathode, the method comprising selectively providing an electrical connection between the anode and the cathode of at least one of the fuel cells of the assembly for lowering the voltage across the fuel cell independent of the load.

Fuel cell assembly and associated method of operation

Vaporizer for an aerosol-generating system with vaporizing method

Methods and devices for generating power using PEM fuel cell power systems comprising a rotary bed reactor for hydrogen generation are disclosed. Hydrogen is generated by the hydrolysis of fuels such as lithium aluminum hydride and mixtures thereof. Water required for hydrolysis may be captured from the fuel cell exhaust. Water is preferably fed to the reactor in the form of a mist generated by an atomizer. An exemplary 750 We-h, 400 We PEM fuel cell power system may be characterized by a specific energy of about 550 We-h/kg and a specific power of about 290 We/kg.

PEM fuel cell powersystems with efficient hydrogen generation

PEM fuel cell power systems with efficient hydrogen generation

A fuel cell assembly in combination with an electrochemical battery, having an electrical connection therebetween, the electrical connection including a current blocking element to prevent current stored in the battery from flowing into the fuel cell assembly and wherein the electrical connection is absent of a current control component for current generated by the fuel cell assembly flowing to the battery.

Fuel cell and battery

An inductive charger comprising an inductive charging coil for providing energy to a inductive receiving coil; and a fuel cell configured to provide electricity to the inductive charging coil.

Inductive charger

A microvalve assembly () is integrated into a printed circuit board (PCB) substrate (). An aperture () in the PCB substrate includes a closure member () extending into the aperture. A flexible fluid pipe () is disposed between the closure member and a closure edge () of the aperture. A displacement member () is coupled to the PCB and is configured for thermal actuation to displace the closure member so as to vary the cross-sectional profile of the flexible fluid pipe. The closure member may be a cantilever section of the PCB substrate. Displacement of the closure member to vary the cross-sectional profile of the flexible fluid pipe can occur entirely within the plane of the PCB substrate and movement of the displacement member to displace the closure member can also occur entirely within the plane of the PCB substrate, providing a very low profile of microvalve particularly suited for integration into a fuel cell stack ().

Microvalve

A portable computing device such as a laptop computer has a base unit () and a display screen unit () coupled together by a hinge assembly () configured to allow rotation of the base unit and the screen unit relative to one another. The display screen unit has a display panel on a first face of the display screen unit and a fuel cell array () disposed adjacent to a second face of the display screen unit. Ventilation apertures through the second face of the display screen unit provide air flow to the fuel cell array. A fuel conduit extends between the base unit and the display screen unit across the hinge assembly for delivering fuel from the base unit to the display screen unit.

Fuel cells in laptop computer devices

A gas connector comprising a gas outlet port; and a reconfigurable mating interface. The mating interface is configured to provide a first mating profile and a second mating profile. The first mating profile is configured for connecting the gas connector to a first type of electronic device and the second mating profile is configured for connecting the gas connector to a second, different, type of electronic device.

Gas connector

A switching controller for coupling one of a plurality of voltage sources to a load. The switching controller is configured to receive a characteristic of one of the plurality of voltage sources; for each of the plurality of voltage sources, set a proportion of a switching period of a control signal during which the voltage source is connected to the load, wherein the proportion of the switching period is set based on the received characteristic of one of the plurality of voltage sources; and control which of the plurality of voltage sources is connected to the load in accordance with the control signal.

Switching controller

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Loughborough, United Kingdom

Zachary Elliott