ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,492, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Electrical storage device" was invented by Kenji Shibata (Wako, Japan) and Yasuhiro Nakada (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a battery module, and an inverter configured to convert a DC voltage output from the battery module into an AC voltage. The battery module includes battery cells connected in series, and a state detection unit configured to detect a state of each battery cell of the battery cells. An output voltage of the battery cells is input to the inverter without being stepped up. At least some battery cells of the battery ce...