US Patent Issued to Mazda Motor on Sept. 16 for "Method of controlling hybrid vehicle and control system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,501, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Mazda Motor Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Method of controlling hybrid vehicle and control system" was invented by Masakazu Ohsako (Aki-gun, Japan) and Keisuke Tanaka (Aki-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a hybrid vehicle including an engine, a motor, a starter, a friction engagement element provided between the engine and the motor, and a mechanical oil pump which is driven by the motor and supplies oil to the friction engagement element, is provided. When the friction engagement element is in a disengaged state, a first traveling mode using the motor is perform...