ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,616, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).
"Heat management system for vehicle" was invented by Takayuki Shimauchi (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When front and rear air conditioning units perform dehumidification heating operation, and when a battery is to be cooled, a refrigeration cycle circuit performs cooling operation and supplies a liquid-phase refrigerant to front and rear evaporators and a battery cooling heat exchanger. A heating circuit supplies a high temperature liquid heated by an electric heater to front and rear heater cores. Air cooled by the front and rear evaporat...