US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 1 for "Vehicle, controller of vehicle, and control method for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,494, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle, controller of vehicle, and control method for vehicle" was invented by Ippei Takesue (Toyota, Japan), Masashi Kobayashi (Toyota, Japan) and Sohichi Imai (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes: a battery; a thermal management system; and an ECU. The thermal management system includes an electric pump that circulates a heat medium that exchanges heat with the battery. The thermal management system performs thermal management in the vehicle. When a temperature of the battery is raised using the thermal management system, ECU ...