ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,700, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Air conditioning apparatus and system for electric motor vehicles" was invented by Gee Young Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dae Hee Lee (Incheon, South Korea), Myung Hoe Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Dong Ho Kwon (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air conditioning apparatus for electric motor vehicles includes a sub-heat exchanger provided between a heat exchanger and an electric heater, and the sub-heat exchanger is moved towards the heat exchanger or the electric heater so that heat is conduc...