US Patent Issued to Hino Motors, Toyota Jidosha on Dec. 9 for "Control device for determining an operating mode defining a number of motors operating in an electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,772, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Hino Motors Ltd. (Tokyo) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device for determining an operating mode defining a number of motors operating in an electric vehicle" was invented by Jun Namima (Hino, Japan) and Minoru Kowada (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating mode control device includes a travel driving force information acquisition unit configured to acquire a time-series travel driving force when traveling on a travel route; a vehicle speed information acquisition unit configured to acquire a time-series vehicle speed when traveling on the travel route; a moto...