ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,254, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to FDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Method of estimating life of nickel-metal hydride battery" was invented by Tetsuya Yamane (Tokyo), Tetsu Yamanaka (Tokyo), Masanori Tamura (Tokyo) and Hideyuki Asanuma (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of estimating life of a nickel-metal hydride battery that accommodates a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate facing the positive electrode plate with a separator therebetween and containing a hydrogen absorbing alloy together with an electrolyte is disclosed. A charge phase of charging the nickel-metal hydride battery and a discharge phase of dis...