US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 16 for "Vehicle control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,027, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device" was invented by Takayuki Shimauchi (Toyota, Japan), Hidekazu Hirabayashi (Chiryu, Japan) and Atsushi Ono (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling ECU for a vehicle including a high-temperature-side coolant circuit that circulates high-temperature-side coolant by a high-temperature-side water pump, and an airbag ECU that detects collision stops the high-temperature-side water pump when the collision is detected by the airbag ECU and the high-temperature-side coolant is equal to or higher than a first predetermined tem...