ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,075, issued on July 1, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Battery heating device for vehicle" was invented by Masamichi Makihara (Kariya, Japan), Yoshiki Katoh (Kariya, Japan), Takahiro Maeda (Kariya, Japan), Kuniyoshi Tanioka (Kariya, Japan) and Naoki Yokoyama (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery heating device includes: a radiator and a heater core arranged in parallel with each other; a battery temperature adjusting unit for heating a battery with a heat medium; a first branch branching the heat medium between the radiator and the heater core; a first confluence where the heat medium merges; a second b...