US Patent Issued to ABLIC on April 15 for "Charge/discharge control circuit and battery device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,513, issued on April 15, was assigned to ABLIC Inc. (Nagano, Japan).

"Charge/discharge control circuit and battery device" was invented by Takashi Matsuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charge/discharge control circuit controls charging and discharging using a discharge control FET which opens and closes a discharge path and a charge control FET which opens and closes a charge path. The charge/discharge control circuit includes a charge/discharge monitoring circuit; and a control circuit, turning on and off the discharge control FET connected between a secondary cell and a load and the charge control FET connected between the...