MUMBAI, India, Oct. 31 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202514014784 A) filed by Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi, Japan, on Feb. 20, for 'vehicle, controller of vehicle, and control method for vehicle.'

Inventor(s) include Ippei Takesue; Masashi Kobayashi; and Sohichi Imai.

The application for the patent was published on Oct. 31, under issue no. 44/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A vehicle (1) includes: a battery (10); a thermal management system (30); and an ECU (50). The thermal management system (30) includes an electric pump (371) that circulates a heat medium that exchanges heat with the battery (10). The thermal management system (30) performs thermal management in the vehicle (1). When a temperature of the battery (10) is raised using the thermal management system (30), the 10 ECU (50) controls the electric pump (371) such that a noise caused by driving of the electric pump (371) is suppressed when there is no background noise as compared with when there is a background noise, the background noise being a noise caused by a device other than the electric pump (371)."

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