US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 28 for "Power supply system and relay state determining method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,693, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Power supply system and relay state determining method" was invented by Takahiro Hatano (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply system includes a power storage device; a power control device with a capacitor configured to be pre-charged with electric power from a power source other than the power storage device; a contact relay configured to electrically connect the power storage device and the power control device and disconnect a connection between the power storage device and the power control device, and a controller that sets a tar...