US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 14 for "Detecting an impedance abnormality in a charging path" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,194, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Detecting an impedance abnormality in a charging path" was invented by Yamato Niwa (Kariya, Japan), Toshihiko Minamii (Nisshin, Japan), Toru Ando (Obu, Japan), Yu Shimizu (Nagakute, Japan) and Toshiki Miyazaki (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle configured such that an on-board battery is chargeable by receiving electric power from a power supply outside the vehicle includes an inlet, a voltage sensor that detects an input voltage that is a voltage input from the power supply to the inlet, and a control device configured to execute a det...