US Patent Issued to Hella on April 21 for "Method and apparatus for monitoring a low-pass filter, battery management system, battery and vehicle" (German, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,683, issued on April 21, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for monitoring a low-pass filter, battery management system, battery and vehicle" was invented by Rudolf Deinzer (Neumarkt, Germany), Tomasz Efner (Wolczkowo, Poland) and Andreas Ernst (Bovenden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for monitoring a low-pass filter, preferably a capacitor in a low-pass filter, a battery management system and a battery are provided. The apparatus includes a switch connected in series with a resistor, and a capacitor connected in parallel with the resistor. When the sw...