US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS on Jan. 28 for "Air conditioning device for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,661, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS LTD. (Tokyo).

"Air conditioning device for vehicle" was invented by Hirotaka Tanabe (Tokyo), Takayuki Kobayashi (Tokyo), Hideaki Tatenoi (Tokyo), Masahiro Ota (Tokyo) and Tomoki Hase (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air conditioning device for a vehicle includes: a refrigeration cycle including a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve, and an evaporator through which a refrigerant is sequentially flowed; a high-temperature heat medium circuit through which a high-temperature heat medium has exchanged heat with the refrigerant in the conde...