US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Dec. 30 for "Vehicle that maintains a temperature of a drive unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,058, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle that maintains a temperature of a drive unit" was invented by Takuya Honjo (Tokyo) and Daisuke Takeuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle including: a first drive unit for driving wheels; a temperature control circuit for the first drive unit; and a control device, in which, when controlling the first drive unit under a first drive mode and executing a temperature increase control, the control device determines, based on a state of the vehicle, whether the drive mode of the first drive unit is changeable to a second drive mode in which an out...