ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,328, issued on March 24, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Precharge apparatus" was invented by Futoshi Yamane (Fujisawa, Japan) and Takuya Kikuchi (Fujisawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A precharge apparatus includes a first battery, an electric circuit configured to be supplied with electric power from the first battery, a relay configured to switch electric power supply from the first battery to the electric circuit, a second battery, and a control section configured to control exchange of electric power among the relay, the second battery, and the electric circuit, wherein the control section causes ...