US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 29 for "Cooling circuit for vehicles operated by means of fuel cells" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,851, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Cooling circuit for vehicles operated by means of fuel cells" was invented by Hans Guenter Quix (Herzogenrath, Germany), Jan Mehring (Cologne, Germany), Stefan Quiring (Duesseldorf, Germany) and Tobias Emig (Gelsenkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling system for a fuel cell electric vehicle includes a first circuit designed as a compact cooler unit with an indirect evaporator and indirect condenser. A low-temperature second circuit includes a first partial circuit cooling fuel cell electronic control components, a second par...