US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 21 for "Control device for prompting battery diagnosis and vehicle having such control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,192, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device for prompting battery diagnosis and vehicle having such control device" was invented by Yoshimaru Oshima (Toyota, Japan) and Yuki Sugo (Seto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "ECU (control device) includes a processor that estimates a full charge capacity of the power storage device, a RAM (first memory) that stores the full charge capacity estimated by the processor, and a communication unit that communicates with a HMI device (information terminal) of electrified vehicle. The auxiliary battery is mounted on electrified vehicle so as to...