US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO on Sept. 9 for "Travel control device for hybrid vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,830, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Travel control device for hybrid vehicle" was invented by Manabu Hasegawa (Tokyo) and Takahiro Oguma (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travel control device for a hybrid vehicle includes: an acceleration control part for controlling a traveling motor generator or an engine based on a depression amount of an accelerator pedal; and a regenerative control part for controlling the traveling motor generator with a regenerative control intensity set by an operation part. The acceleration control part includes: an EV priority control portion for prioritiz...