US Patent Issued to DENSO on Nov. 3 for "Battery monitoring device, and battery management unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,458, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Battery monitoring device, and battery management unit" was invented by Satoru Shimizu (Kariya-city, Japan), Kazuaki Mawatari (Kariya-city, Japan), Kazuyuki Ono (Kariya-city, Japan), Kumiko Kawabata (Kariya-city, Japan) and Hiroshige Matsui (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery monitoring device monitors a lithium precipitation amount in a lithium ion battery. The battery monitoring device includes a precipitation amount detection unit that has a short circuit for discharging the lithium ion battery by temporarily shorting both ends of the...