ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,681, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Power management device and power feeding system" was invented by Takuma Mitsunaga (Tokyo), Shingo Suzuki (Tokyo), Masao Ichi (Tokyo), Katsuo Naoi (Tokyo) and Hisakazu Uto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power management device includes: a first determination unit that determines whether or not an execution condition for executing cell balancing for equalizing states of charge of a plurality of battery cells included in a storage battery connected to a direct current (DC) bus via a converter is satisfied; and a control unit that performs cell balancing execution cont...