ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,410, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota Aichi-ken, Japan).
"Charging device" was invented by Kosuke Ikeda (Toyota, Japan) and Shohei Oi (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging device includes: a plurality of legs including respective upper and lower arms having respective switching elements, the upper and lower arms being connected to a battery and a negative pole of a DC charger, respectively; a motor having three phases with a neutral point connected to a positive pole of the DC charger; a driver that drives the switching elements with respective PWM signals; and a controller that monitor...