US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 16 for "In-vehicle air conditioner" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,872, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"In-vehicle air conditioner" was invented by Yuha Nakajima (Toyota, Japan) and Makoto Mimoto (Aichi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle air conditioner includes a blower configured to send blown air to a vehicle compartment, a cooling device having a heat exchanger for cooling the blown air, and a controller configured to control the blower and the cooling device. The controller operates the blower to perform a simplified pre-air-conditioning for introducing outside air into the vehicle compartment while the cooling device is stopped, ...