ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,880, issued on March 25, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Refrigeration cycle device" was invented by Satoshi Suzuki (Kariya, Japan), Satoshi Itoh (Kariya, Japan) and Kengo Sugimura (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigeration cycle device includes a refrigeration cycle, an outdoor heat exchanger, a cooling necessity determination unit, a determination reference setting unit, and a cooling control unit. The cooling necessity determination unit determines whether or not to cool a battery depending on whether or not a physical quantity that correlates with a temperature of the battery is equal to or more ...