US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on June 30 for "Ship propulsion device and battery temperature adjustment method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,343, issued on June 30, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Ship propulsion device and battery temperature adjustment method" was invented by Mutsuhiko Takeda (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ship propulsion device includes: a motor; a battery; a temperature-adjustment-water flow path including a first route passing through a first exchanger capable of exchanging heat with the battery; a route switch unit switchable between a state which permits a flow of water to the first route and a state which restricts the flow of the water to the first route; a first temperature sen...