US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 10 for "Power supply apparatus configured to detect current path abnormalities" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,022, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Power supply apparatus configured to detect current path abnormalities" was invented by Koichi Kojima (Toyota, Japan), Soichiro Ito (Toyota, Japan) and Masashi Yoshimi (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a power supply apparatus, a controller programmed to control the system main relay, the charging relay, the series connection relay, the parallel connection relay, and the first and second neutral point relays such that the first and second capacitors are both precharged, to detect the presence of an abnormality in a first current path charging...