US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Jan. 20 for "Estimating system and estimation method and aircraft" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,357, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Estimating system and estimation method and aircraft" was invented by Takeshi Matsumoto (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A state of charge estimating system 70 includes: a power generator 40a for supplying power to rotors 20 and 29; a battery 32 for accumulating power supplied from the power generator and also supplying the accumulated power to the rotors; an ECU 25 for detecting a voltage between terminals of the rotors (an inverter 22); and a flight controller 92 for determining if a detection result of the voltage between terminals detected by the...