US Patent Issued to DENSO on July 21 for "Control device for secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,586, issued on July 21, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Control device for secondary battery" was invented by Hisashi Umemoto (Kariya-city, Japan), Yuji Yamagami (Kariya-city, Japan), Shuhei Yoshida (Kariya-city, Japan) and Masaki Uchiyama (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes a diagnosis unit configured to diagnose a deterioration state of a secondary battery. The diagnosis unit includes: a resistance calculator configured to calculate a direct current resistance and a reaction resistance of impedance components based on an impedance measurement result of the secondary battery; an...