ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,521, issued on March 18, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Trilateral cycle system" was invented by Makoto Abe (Fujisawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature adjustment mechanism for a vehicle includes a battery-applied pump and circulation paths, and adjusts a temperature of a battery chargeable from an external power supply outside the vehicle to be within a predetermined temperature range. The temperature adjustment mechanism further includes a vacuum insulation tank in which either cold water generated by a cold energy source or hot water heated by a hot energy source is stored according to an ambient te...