ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,092, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Management apparatus for energy storage device and energy storage apparatus" was invented by Yuki Matsuda (Kyoto, Japan), Masakatsu Fujimatsu (Kyoto, Japan), Akimasa Sugiura (Kyoto, Japan), Naoya Wada (Kyoto, Japan) and Satoshi Kunita (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A BMU (management apparatus) of a secondary battery (energy storage device) includes a management part that operates by power supplied from the secondary battery, and a capacitor (backup power source) that supplies power to the management part when a voltage of the secondary...