US Patent Issued to DENSO on Dec. 30 for "State determination device and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,583, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"State determination device and vehicle" was invented by Junya Muramatsu (Nagakute, Japan), Ryosuke Okachi (Nagakute, Japan), Katsuhiro Kutsuki (Nagakute, Japan), Takashi Tominaga (Nagakute, Japan) and Masataka Deguchi (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A state determination device includes an initial waveform storage unit, a waveform acquisition unit, an element temperature acquisition unit, a past waveform storage unit, and a failure state determination unit. The failure state determination unit classifies the time waveform based on the initial time wav...