US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 17 for "Thermal management system, vehicle including the same, and method for controlling thermal management circuit" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,687, issued on March 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Thermal management system, vehicle including the same, and method for controlling thermal management circuit" was invented by Ryo Michikawauchi (Numazu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching device of a thermal management system is configured to switch a thermal management circuit to a first circuit mode or a second circuit mode based on the relationship between a battery temperature and a threshold temperature. When a predetermined condition that the amount of change in chiller temperature associated with switching of the circuit mode of the t...