ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,394, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Life determination device and life determination method" was invented by Shogo Tanaka (Okazaki, Japan), Ryo Kanda (Nisshin, Japan), Seiji Kanda (Miyoshi, Japan), Ryoko Tanaka (Toyota, Japan) and Takuma Endo (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ECU is configured to determine the life of a pressure storage tank. The pressure storage tank has a gas chamber filled with gas, an oil chamber connected to a common passageway, and a piston dividing the gas chamber and the oil chamber. The pressure storage tank is configured to store hydraulic oil in the ...