US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, DENSO on July 14 for "Overcurrent protection device and charging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,379, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Overcurrent protection device and charging device" was invented by Kotaro Asaba (Nagoya, Japan), Daisuke Ueo (Toyota, Japan), Nobutaka Tanaka (Nagoya, Japan), Junya Matsushita (Toyota, Japan), Yohei Imai (Kariya-city, Japan) and Ryota Tanabe (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An overcurrent protection device includes a first input terminal, a second input terminal, a first output terminal, a second output terminal, a breaker, a current sensor, and a comparator. A positive terminal and a negative terminal of a ...