US Patent Issued to DENSO on Sept. 9 for "Battery temperature control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,944, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Battery temperature control device" was invented by Kouji Miura (Kariya, Japan), Yoshiki Katoh (Kariya, Japan), Masamichi Makihara (Kariya, Japan), Atsushi Yamada (Kariya, Japan), Kenta Kayano (Kariya, Japan), Hiroaki Kawano (Kariya, Japan), Tooru Okamura (Kariya, Japan), Naoya Makimoto (Kariya, Japan) and Takahiro Maeda (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery temperature control device includes a heating medium circuit that connects a battery heat exchanger, an outside air heat exchanger, a heating medium pump, and a flow rate regulating unit. The...