ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,072, issued on April 22, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Battery monitoring device" was invented by Kazuo Matsukawa (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current application unit includes a load element, a switching element, and a shunt resistor connected in series between both terminals of an assembled battery, and a drive control unit of the switching element to apply an alternating current having a predetermined frequency to the assembled battery. The drive control unit includes: a PWM modulator for generating a drive signal; a PDM modulator for generating the drive signal; and a switching unit for switching...