US Patent Issued to ABLIC on Sept. 23 for "Charge control circuit, charge control device, and battery device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,859, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ABLIC Inc. (Nagano, Japan).

"Charge control circuit, charge control device, and battery device" was invented by Fumihiko Maetani (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Saito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The charge control circuit includes a cell connection detection circuit monitoring a voltage between input ports to which terminals of a cell pack are connected, an overvoltage detection circuit monitoring an overvoltage of the secondary cells, a first latch circuit receiving a signal output by the cell connection detection circuit, a second latch circuit receiving a signal output by the overvoltage det...