US Patent Issued to SANYO Electric on April 14 for "Power supply device, electric vehicle provided with power supply device, and power storage device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,265, issued on April 14, was assigned to SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Power supply device, electric vehicle provided with power supply device, and power storage device" was invented by Jun Asakura (Hyogo, Japan) and Junya Yano (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply device connects a plurality of battery modules including a plurality of battery cells by power line. Battery module includes cell monitor circuit that detects battery information, and a plurality of cell monitor circuits provided in each battery module are cascade-connected via communication line. Cell monitor circuit includes communicatio...