US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 27 for "Hydrogen filling method, hydrogen filling apparatus, program, and record medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,224, issued on May 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Hydrogen filling method, hydrogen filling apparatus, program, and record medium" was invented by Shota Yamamoto (Toyota, Japan), Hiroki Yahashi (Toyota, Japan), Eiji Okawachi (Toyota, Japan) and Toshiyuki Kondo (Chiryu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To enable a hydrogen tank to be efficiently filled with hydrogen even when the hydrogen tank has a large capacity, hydrogen filling at the nozzle flow is prohibited when the nozzle flow of a nozzle is larger than the receptacle flow of a receptacle or when the receptacle flow is unknown under the condition...