US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 15 for "Air conditioning device for vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,346, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Air conditioning device for vehicle" was invented by Takayuki Shimauchi (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an outside air mode, outside air introduced through an outside air introducing opening is introduced into a ventilation duct. In an inside air mode, inside air introduced through an inside air introducing opening is introduced into the ventilation duct. In an inside and outside air mixture mode, the outside air introduced through the outside air introducing opening and the inside air introduced through the inside air introducing openin...