ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,333, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Power control apparatus for vehicle" was invented by Yuji Fujita (Tokyo), Yu Yamamoto (Tokyo), Atsushi Saito (Tokyo) and Keita Kishi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An IPU for a vehicle includes a battery that supplies power to a drive unit of a vehicle, a current sensor that detects current of the battery, a temperature sensor that detects temperature of the battery, contactors that cut off the flow of electrical current from the battery and the flow of electrical current to the battery, and a battery ECU that, when a current detection function by the curre...