US Patent Issued to SUBARU on June 23 for "Vehicle charging and discharging system and electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,003, issued on June 23, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle charging and discharging system and electric vehicle" was invented by Hayata Mimatsu (Tokyo), Tomoyuki Yamamuro (Tokyo), Yasufumi Tanaka (Tokyo), Nobuo Morimura (Tokyo) and Hiroki Morika (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle charging and discharging system to be applied to an electric vehicle includes a rectifier, an inverter, a relay, and a control processor. The rectifier is disposed on a charging path through which a battery of the electric vehicle is to be contactlessly charged from external equipment via a coil in the electric vehicle. The inverter ...