ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,792, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Control device and control method" was invented by Shohei Asada (Fujisawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes: an acquiring part that acquires a temperature of a battery cell of the battery; an identifying part that identifies a charge amount of the battery; and a cooling control part that determines a cooling-onset battery cell temperature on the basis of the charge amount identified by the identifying part, and operates an electric compressor to begin cooling the cooling water with the secondary refrigerant on condition that the temperat...