US Patent Issued to DENSO, DENSO AUTOMOTIVE Deutschland on April 14 for "Vehicle air-conditioning device" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,196, issued on April 14, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan) and DENSO AUTOMOTIVE Deutschland GmbH (Eching, Germany).

"Vehicle air-conditioning device" was invented by Kazuhiro Tada (Kariya-city, Japan), Atsushi Inaba (Kariya-city, Japan), Zhaoliang Xu (Kariya-city, Japan), Patrick Horn (Eching, Germany), Shivakumar Banakar (Eching, Germany) and Ariel Marasigan (Eching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle air-conditioning device includes a compressor, a heating unit, an outside air heat exchanger, a wind speed regulation unit, and a controller. The heating unit includes a heating heat exchanger and heats ve...