US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on March 31 for "Resistance calculation device, resistance calculation method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,018, issued on March 31, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Resistance calculation device, resistance calculation method, and program" was invented by Kaoru Omichi (Wako, Japan), Yurika Nishimoto (Wako, Japan) and Tadashi Kaga (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resistance calculation device includes: a characteristic calculation portion configured to calculate a shrinkage rate for each single electrode based on a capacity shift amount of a positive electrode of a deteriorated secondary battery, a capacity shift amount of a negative electrode of the deteriorated secondary battery, a deterioration amount of the ...