US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on Sept. 29 for "Power supply network, electric vehicle, and power conversion device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,824, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Power supply network, electric vehicle, and power conversion device" was invented by Nobuyasu Kanekawa (Tokyo), Hiroshi Nakano (Tokyo), Takao Fukuda (Hitachinaka, Japan), Ryoichi Inada (Tokyo) and Kentaro Jumonji (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The object of the present invention is to achieve redundancy of a power supply function by a simple configuration, to ensure operational continuity in case of failure. A power grid (1) comprises: a first power supply path (20-1) that is connected to a main engine-driving power source (100-0)...