ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,355, issued on April 8, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Charging apparatus" was invented by Shuhei Chizuwa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a charging device and a vehicle capable of reducing the amount of noise flowing into a quick-charging facility. The pair of charging lines connecting the quick-charging facility (20) to an onboard battery (30) are referred to as quick-charging lines, and each of these quick-charging lines is provided with a relay (16-1, 16-2). Each relay (16-1, 16-2) is used to switch the current flowing in the respective quick-charging line on and off, ...