US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 30 for "Hydrogen filling apparatus and hydrogen filling method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,852, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Hydrogen filling apparatus and hydrogen filling method" was invented by Kiyoshi Handa (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrogen filling apparatus includes an initial pressure acquisition unit that acquires an initial pressure in a hydrogen tank, a history acquisition unit that acquires a filling history of a requesting vehicle, a determination unit that determines, based on the filling history, whether or not the hydrogen tank will overheat if the hydrogen tank is filled with hydrogen at a filling speed corresponding to the initial pressure, and a f...