US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO on July 21 for "In-vehicle control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,275, issued on July 21, was assigned to MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO K.K. (Tokyo).

"In-vehicle control device" was invented by Hirokazu Maezawa (Tokyo), Shohei Kawano (Tokyo), Shinji Akiyoshi (Tokyo) and Yoshinori Tomita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle control device (10) includes a determination unit (11) that determines whether or not a target contactor (21) for connecting and disconnecting a high-voltage circuit of a battery (2) installed in a vehicle is likely to have sticking after the high-voltage circuit is used; and an off control unit (12) that performs an off control to prohibit current conduction to the tar...