ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,271, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Control system for thermal management and distribution" was invented by Zhaoliang Xu (Shanghai), Nan Li (Shanghai), Xiaohua Xu (Shanghai), Kai Wu (Shanghai) and Kota Sakamoto (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cabin heating circuit includes a first pump, a heat source, and a heater core. A battery heating circuit includes a first flow path that branches off from the cabin heating circuit at a three-way flow control valve. The battery heating circuit further includes a second flow path that is independent of the first flow path. The first flow path and the s...