US Patent Issued to JTEKT, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 3 for "Power supply device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,740, issued on March 3, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Power supply device" was invented by Hiroki Nitta (Okazaki, Japan), Tokuaki Hibino (Toyota, Japan), Daiki Inaba (Okazaki, Japan), Kohei Ota (Kariya, Japan), Yosuke Yamashita (Nagoya, Japan) and Fumihiko Sato (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control circuit of a power supply device forms a state in which an auxiliary power supply is connected via a charge circuit to a main power supply when a power switch provided on a power feeding path is turned on. The control circuit calculates an internal resistance of the...