US Patent Issued to FDK on March 3 for "Battery bank unit, remaining charge time calculation method, and remaining charge time calculation program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,755, issued on March 3, was assigned to FDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Battery bank unit, remaining charge time calculation method, and remaining charge time calculation program" was invented by Katsuhiko Tamaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery bank unit includes: a first battery bank and a second battery bank that are connected in parallel to each other; and a control apparatus that starts charging the second battery bank after the first battery bank is fully charged. The control apparatus calculates remaining time to complete charge of the battery bank unit based on a temperature of the battery bank unit at a start of the charg...