US Patent Issued to HONDA MOTOR on Sept. 22 for "State-of-charge estimation method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,822, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to HONDA MOTOR Co. LTD (Tokyo).

"State-of-charge estimation method" was invented by Hiroto Okabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a state-of-charge estimation method that includes: obtaining a plurality of pseudo-SOC values before depolarization, based on a cell voltage after a battery 11 is continuously charged or discharged and the charging or discharging is stopped; setting an initial value for an estimated SOC value that is estimated as a post-depolarization SOC; obtaining a triangle-pseudo-SOC value that is a difference between each of the pseudo-SOC values and the estimate...