US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 21 for "Contactless power feed system, ground power feed device, and contactless power feed method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,034, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Contactless power feed system, ground power feed device, and contactless power feed method" was invented by Daiki Yokoyama (Gotemba, Japan), Toshiya Hashimoto (Miyoshi, Japan), Shuntaro Okazaki (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Shogo Tsuge (Fuji, Japan) and Kazuhisa Matsuda (Shizuoka-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contactless power feed system includes a first ground power feed device and a second ground power feed device for performing contactless power feed to a moving body. The first ground power feed device transmits a passing signal to the secon...