US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on Sept. 1 for "Battery unit temperature management device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,849, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Battery unit temperature management device" was invented by Takashi Yamamoto (Aki-gun, Japan) and Toshiki Takahashi (Aki-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery unit temperature management device may include a battery unit that can be charged and discharged, a heater that operates due to electricity supply from the battery unit and heats a heat exchange medium that exchanges heat with the battery unit, a changing structure that changes a heat transfer capacity between the battery unit and the heat exchange medium, and a controller that controls...