US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, SUBARU on May 6 for "Battery system and method for equalization of battery pack" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,062, issued on May 6, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Battery system and method for equalization of battery pack" was invented by Hiroshi Yoshida (Anjo, Japan), Takahiko Nakagawa (Seto, Japan) and Kenta Uwai (Shibuya-ku Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery system comprises a battery pack, an equalization unit, and a battery ECU. The battery pack includes a plurality of blocks connected in series. The equalization unit performs equalization control to equalize the plurality of blocks in voltage. The battery ECU obtains a determined equalization time, and controls the e...