US Patent Issued to SANDEN on March 25 for "Air conditioning device for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,882, issued on March 25, was assigned to SANDEN Corp. (Gunma, Japan).

"Air conditioning device for vehicle" was invented by Yoshiki Shibaoka (Gunma, Japan), Kouhei Yamashita (Gunma, Japan), Hongming Zhang (Gunma, Japan), Yoshiyuki Okamoto (Gunma, Japan), Takayuki Matsumura (Gunma, Japan) and Kodai Matsuzaki (Gunma, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device of a vehicle air-conditioning apparatus, in a heating operation by use of a heating unit, has at least a temperature control target heat absorption heating mode in which a refrigerant that has been discharged from a compressor and has dissipated heat in the heating uni...