ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,421, issued on March 18, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Temperature estimation device" was invented by Hisaaki Kobayashi (Kariya, Japan) and Masakazu Yamamoto (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature estimation device includes: an initial value estimation unit that estimates an initial temperature value of an estimation target component at the start of operation of a power converter electrically connected to a power storage device; a variation estimation unit that estimates a temperature variation of the estimation target component based on the value of an electric current supplied from the power co...