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To: Michael Stavy who wrote (3789)	7/6/1999 11:33:00 AM
From: Frank Haims	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 8393

All The July edition of Scientific American has an add by ECD on page 87 It is next to a series of articles on Fuel Cells. It highlights two of ECD's fuel cell related technologies. NiMH batteries and in the lower half Ovonic Metal Hydride (MH) Storage devices The storage devices is a cylinder containing an Ovonic Alloy offering Hydrogen storage in a solid state of 5%wt to 7% wt at 300 degrees C desorption(opposite of absorption) equivalant to 560 to 780 standard liters per kilogram of alloy. excellent desorption kinetics initiated within a few seconds Life of over 2000 cycles Poison tolerance especially to CO Ovonic MH storage systems can provide pure H2 to fuel cells or ICE Ovonic MH storage systems are safe compact low pressure hi density alternatives to gaseous or liquid H2 storage at lower cost. My take In the surrounding articles Metal hydride storage is discussed at 2% This Ovonic storage is superior to earlier forms. ECD recently received a patent on Magnesium storage. From back of the envelope calcs in my case a very old envelope a business envelope and not an engineering envelope. 64 kilos will hold the amount discussed in the article sufficient for 36000 liters enough for 500 kilometers driving. Frank

To: Michael Stavy who wrote (3789)	7/6/1999 12:37:00 PM
From: Michael Stavy	Respond to of 8393

It is not only little companies that have patent protection issues. Look at this news about Gillette ---------------------------------------------------------------- ASDA Starts Legal Action Against Gillette LONDON (Reuters) - British supermarket chain ASDA said Tuesday it was starting legal action against Gillette Co (NYSE:G - news) to defend its right to sell a flexible shaving system. ASDA said the U.S. multinational wanted it to cease advertising the fact that ASDA's three-blade razor, called Tri-Flex, also fit on to Gillette handles. ASDA said in a statement it was filing a writ at the High Court in London Tuesday seeking a ''declaration of non-infringement,'' allowing it to continue to tell customers about Tri-Flex's adaptability. ASDA said Boston-based Gillette had 28 days to respond to the writ. ''We are selling the Tri-Flex now and we have no intention of stopping. All we are doing is offering the best possible price,'' an ASDA spokesman said. ''Gillette's concerns may spring from facing an unexpected low-price competitor,'' he said. The ASDA statement gave a price comparison, which it said showed the recommended retail price in Britain of its Tri-Flex, with a handle and four razor cartridges, was cheaper than Gillette's Mach3 system with two cartridges. ASDA's move in the British courts came in the wake of Gillette's own lawsuit against the makers of the Tri-Flex, American Safety Razor Co of Verona, Virginia. Gillette filed the suit in a U.S. District Court in Boston on June 4, accusing American Safety of infringing on its patents with the Tri-Flex and other products and infringing on trade dress and other intellectual property with the packaging. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------