US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Dec. 23 for "Battery-module temperature increase method and cell balancing method using the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,190, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Battery-module temperature increase method and cell balancing method using the same" was invented by Norio Suzuki (Tokyo), Hiroshi Abe (Tokyo) and Kazuya Tachimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for raising a temperature of a battery module for a vehicle. The method including generating heat in one or more resistors of the battery module by supplying one or more voltages from at least a part of cells of the battery module. The battery module includes the cells coupled in series, and the one or more resistors configured to generate heat after being energize...