US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS on Nov. 18 for "Vehicle air conditioning system and vehicle air conditioning method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,801, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS LTD. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle air conditioning system and vehicle air conditioning method" was invented by Hirotaka Tanabe (Tokyo), Takayuki Kobayashi (Tokyo), Tomoki Hase (Tokyo), Yasutaka Aoki (Tokyo) and Hideaki Tatenoi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle air conditioning system includes: a refrigerant circuit; a heat medium circuit including high-temperature medium and low-temperature medium circuits; interior and exterior heat exchangers; an exhaust heat recovery circuit; and a switching part. The system operates in:a mode in which the hea...