US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on April 8 for "Method for controlling series hybrid vehicle, and series hybrid vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,455, issued on April 8, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Method for controlling series hybrid vehicle, and series hybrid vehicle" was invented by Kiyoshi Hoshi (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroko Katayama (Kanagawa, Japan), Azusa Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroyasu Fujita (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiromu Morishita (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A series hybrid vehicle control method charges a battery with electric power generated by an electric power generation motor driven by an internal combustion engine, and electric power regenerated by a drive motor. The control method starts generating the electric...