US Patent Issued to ISUZU MOTORS on Jan. 13 for "Sticking diagnosis apparatus and sticking diagnosis method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,697, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Sticking diagnosis apparatus and sticking diagnosis method" was invented by Futoshi Yamane (Fujisawa, Japan), Takuya Kikuchi (Fujisawa, Japan) and Kenta Kameda (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sticking diagnosis apparatus for diagnosing a presence of sticking at a positive-electrode relay and at a negative-electrode relay, the sticking diagnosis apparatus including an obtaining section that obtains, a first voltage value that is a voltage between a point downstream of the positive-electrode relay and a point upstream of the negative-electro...