US Patent Issued to GS Yuasa International on Dec. 30 for "Energy storage apparatus and failure diagnosis method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,596, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GS Yuasa International Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Energy storage apparatus and failure diagnosis method" was invented by Yuki Ueda (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy storage apparatus includes: an external terminal 51; an energy storage cell 62; a current interruption device 53 that has one end electrically connected to the external terminal 51 and the other end electrically connected to the energy storage cell 62; a discharge circuit 110 that discharges electricity from the energy storage cell 62 via a path that does not pass through the current interruption device 53; and a fai...