DCH Receives Patent for New Technology Increasing Fuel Cell
Power Density
VALENCIA, Calif., May 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DCH Technology, Inc. (Amex: DCH) announced today it has been granted a U.S. patent for significant improvements to its passive fuel cell technology that increases the power of a portable DCH Enable(TM) fuel cell generator by up to 50 percent.
DCH is currently shipping passive portable fuel cells for use as power packs serving field data collectors and telecommunications up-link equipment. "This patent protects breakthrough engineering targeted at this and other strategic market niches for DCH, such as personal mobility markets," said DCH President & CEO John Donohue.
DCH's passive fuel cell technology is based on, and licensed from, technology resulting from a significant investment in PEM fuel cells by the U.S. Department of Energy at its Los Alamos National Laboratory. The new DCH patent, and several trade secrets surrounding the patent, were viewed as critical to the company's commercialization plans. The improvement is an innovative passive water management system that increases both power density and operating stability.
DCH's passive technology is targeted at portable applications, where either the available envelope within a product for the power pack is often a given -- like the sleeve for a six-volt battery or the battery on a electric wheelchair -- or if the envelope is not yet defined, there's usually a strong desire to make it as small and light as possible. With this patent DCH now offers a power pack that, within existing design configurations, provides more power for more product features and functions, or alternatively, allows the OEM to downsize the product with the same features and functions. |
