US Patent Issued to PANASONIC ENERGY on Nov. 3 for "Battery pack for electric bicycle and electric bicycle equipped with battery pack" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,425, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to PANASONIC ENERGY Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Battery pack for electric bicycle and electric bicycle equipped with battery pack" was invented by Shingo Mizoshita (Moriguchi, Japan), Hidetaka Arai (Moriguchi, Japan), Toru Nishikawa (Moriguchi, Japan), Kazuya Maegawa (Moriguchi, Japan) and Hiroki Teraoka (Moriguchi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack includes a rechargeable battery, a charge FET including a parallel diode connected in series with the battery, and a control circuit configured to control turning on and off of the charge FET. The control circuit includes a discriminating...