US Patent Issued to DENSO on April 8 for "Battery monitor system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,862, issued on April 8, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Battery monitor system" was invented by Yoshikazu Furuta (Kariya, Japan), Soya Taniguchi (Kariya, Japan), Tomohiro Nezuka (Kariya, Japan) and Kazutaka Honda (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery monitor system includes: a reference signal generation unit; an excitation signal generation unit; a current generation unit for an excitation current; a current measurement unit for the excitation current; a voltage measurement unit for a voltage of each battery cell; an impedance measurement unit for an impedance of each battery cell; a noise measurement...