US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 29 for "Heat management system and electrified vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,796, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Heat management system and electrified vehicle" was invented by Tomoaki Suzuki (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat management system includes an electrical storage device configured to exchange heat with a first channel, a drive unit configured to exchange heat with a second channel, a radiator in a third channel, a chiller device in a fourth channel, and a switching unit. In the heat management system, when the electrical storage device is heated, the switching unit is controlled such that the electrical storage device, the drive unit, t...