ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,876, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Heat management system" was invented by Tomoaki Suzuki (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The heat management system includes a power storage device in a first channel, a drive device in a second channel, a radiator in a third channel, a chiller device in a fourth channel, and a switching device. In a heat management system, when making the temperature of a plurality of power storage cells uniform, a first connected channel in which a first channel and a fourth channel are connected, and a second channel and a third channel are connected. The swi...