ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,855, issued on March 11, was assigned to Yazaki North America Inc. (Canton, Mich.).
"Battery stress relief system with bypass" was invented by Yuanyuan Wu (Manchester, Mich.) and Kenneth John Russel (South Lyon, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power system includes a battery charge path and capacitor charge path arranged in parallel. During an inrush event, a current limiting element restricts current flow along the battery charge path to relieve battery stress. During the inrush event, current flow between the battery and load along a bypass path is also prevented by a switch element. Under steady state charging conditions, ...