US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 30 for "Method of detecting short circuit in water electrolyzer, method of generating hydrogen, and water electrolyzer" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,786, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Method of detecting short circuit in water electrolyzer, method of generating hydrogen, and water electrolyzer" was invented by Keisuke Fujita (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To make it possible to detect a short circuit in a water electrolyzer even while the water electrolyzer is operating, a voltage sensor is disposed for each of plural water electrolytic cells, the voltage of each of the water electrolytic cells is measured with the voltage sensor while the water electrolyzer is operating, and it is determined that there is a short circuit ...