US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 29 for "Thermal management circuit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,738, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Thermal management circuit" was invented by Hidefumi Aikawa (Okazaki, Japan) and Makoto Ikegami (Obu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The thermal management circuit includes a battery circuit (first circuit), a refrigeration cycle, and a heat dissipation circuit (second circuit). The heat dissipation circuit includes a flow path (first flow path), a flow path (second flow path), and a flow path (third flow path). The flow path connects the port (outlet port) of the condensing portion and the upstream-side HT radiator (upstream-side radiator). The flo...