US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on March 18 for "Capacity degradation prediction method and prediction system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,567, issued on March 18, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Capacity degradation prediction method and prediction system" was invented by Seiichi Koketsu (Wako, Japan), Shunsuke Konishi (Wako, Japan), Hodaka Tsuge (Wako, Japan) and Hidetoshi Utsumi (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prediction system includes a charger and an estimation apparatus, and performs a method of predicting capacity degradation of a secondary battery. The estimation apparatus obtains changes of a plurality of parameters of capacity degradation, based on a fitting operation of fitting, to a target-battery charge curve of a target batte...