US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 24 for "Engine cooling device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,436, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Engine cooling device" was invented by Shoichi Akiyama (Toyota, Japan), Takenori Saoda (Okazaki, Japan), Masazumi Yoshida (Kariya, Japan) and Hirokazu Tanaka (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engine cooling device includes: a block lower portion that is a lower portion of a cylinder block; a block upper portion that is an upper portion of the cylinder block; a cylinder head of the engine; an exhaust cooling portion that cools an exhaust gas of the engine; a radiator that dissipates heat of a coolant; a first path that bypasses the radiator ...