US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 7 for "Thermal management system and control method for thermal management system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,946, issued on April 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Thermal management system and control method for thermal management system" was invented by Isao Takagi (Okazaki, Japan) and Tarou Furukubo (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal management system includes a thermal management circuit through which a thermal medium flows and an electronic control unit. A first water pump is provided upstream of a second water pump in the direction of flow of the thermal medium with a reservoir tank as a start point when the thermal management circuit is in a series connection state in which the reservoir ta...