US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on June 16 for "Controlling charging based on charger connection state" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,580, issued on June 16, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Controlling charging based on charger connection state" was invented by Akira Saita (Tokyo) and Hironobu Taniguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a charging control system for an electric vehicle capable of being charged from an external power source. The charging control system includes an inlet which is provided in the electric vehicle and to which a charging gun including an operable S3 switch is connected, and a charging control ECU capable of controlling the charging and performing a setting of timer charging. The charging control ECU cance...