ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,800, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Integrated thermal management system" was invented by Man Ju Oh (Yongin-si, South Korea), Ki Mok Kim (Busan, South Korea) and Sang Shin Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is an integrated thermal management system of which the cooling performance is secured because the entire area of a radiator is used when cooling a PE part and a battery. In particular, heat of the PE part and heat of the battery are selectively shared and thus the entire circuit of the system becomes compact and the...