US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 14 for "Battery system and estimation method of full charge capacity" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,100, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Battery system and estimation method of full charge capacity" was invented by Hiroshi Yoshida (Anjo, Japan), Takashi Ogura (Seto, Japan), Yuki Sugo (Seto, Japan) and Koichi Nishino (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The threshold cumulative value calculation unit calculates a threshold cumulative value. The current cumulating unit cumulates the charging current. When the first current cumulative value, which is the cumulative value from the start of charging, becomes equal to or larger than the threshold cumulative value, the maximum value detect...