US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 13 for "Electrically powered vehicle and method of controlling charging of electrically powered vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,701, issued on May 13, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Electrically powered vehicle and method of controlling charging of electrically powered vehicle" was invented by Yoshiyuki Tsuchiya (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inter-terminal voltage obtaining unit obtains an inter-terminal voltage of a battery. A comparator compares the inter-terminal voltage with a maximum output voltage of a charger. When relation of VBless than equal toVCmax is satisfied, an AC charging relay is switched such that output electric power from the charger is supplied to a high-voltage side of a buck-boost converter. ...