ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,245, issued on April 14, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Power control apparatus for vehicle" was invented by Yuji Fujita (Tokyo), Yu Yamamoto (Tokyo), Atsushi Saito (Tokyo) and Keita Kishi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An IPU includes a battery that supplies power to a drive unit of a vehicle, a temperature sensor that detects temperature of the battery, a current sensor that detects electrical current of the battery, a voltage sensor that detects voltage of the battery, contactors that cut off the electrical current flow from the battery and the electrical current flow to the battery, and a battery ECU that,...