ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,020, issued on May 19, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Battery monitoring device" was invented by Yoshiki Tsuchida (Toyota, Japan) and Yuuki Naruse (Kosai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery monitoring device monitors an assembled battery in which sets of a plurality of battery cells connected in parallel to each other are connected in series to each other, the battery monitoring device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a voltage of the battery cell, a controller configured to control an upper limit value of a current flowing through the battery cell, and a detection unit configured t...