Patents Assigned to ESPEC Corporation
  • Patent number: 7216044
    Abstract: A battery state diagnosing device applies load to a battery from a load applying section, measures input and output characteristics of the battery, and diagnoses a state of the battery by plugging a result of measurement into a mathematical expression obtained by a system identification method. In the battery state diagnosing device, a current load is used as the load applying section. With this arrangement, the battery state diagnosing device is capable of suitably determining, for example, life and state-of-charge of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: ESPEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Kato, Hirohito Funato, Alexandru Forrai
  • Patent number: 6798222
    Abstract: A migration measuring method based on an alternating current impedance method, including steps: direct current with fine alternating current superposed is applied across electrodes (1), (2) to measure the impedance there between; and a surface static capacity (c) is calculated from the measured value of impedance in order to measure migration in accordance with the variation of the calculated surface static capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Espec Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu Tanaka, Sachio Yoshihara, Takashi Shirakashi, Hiroaki Hiramatsu, Kazuhiro Kumekawa, Fumitaka Ueta
  • Patent number: D681844
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Espec Corporation
    Inventor: Osamu Matsuguma
  • Patent number: D681845
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Espec Corporation
    Inventor: Osamu Matsuguma