US Patent Issued to DENSO on Feb. 3 for "Detector and non-transitory computer readable medium for detecting sign of thermal runaway of secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,985, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Detector and non-transitory computer readable medium for detecting sign of thermal runaway of secondary battery" was invented by Shuhei Yoshida (Kariya, Japan), Masaki Uchiyama (Kariya, Japan) and Hiroki Fujii (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detector includes a measurement unit and a battery control unit. The measurement unit measures a measurement value indicating a battery state of a secondary battery. The battery control unit detects a sign of thermal runaway in the secondary battery. The measurement unit determines whether a start-up signal is out...