US Patent Issued to NISSAN MOTOR on April 8 for "Vehicle control method, and vehicle control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,352, issued on April 8, was assigned to NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Vehicle control method, and vehicle control device" was invented by Akira Kojima (Kanagawa, Japan), Tetsuya Fuke (Kanagawa, Japan), Masashi Morikawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuhiro Oomichi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kouhei Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a vehicle accelerates due to an upshifting of a transmission, a recirculation valve is opened and ignition period is retarded so that the torque generated in an internal combustion engine decreases. When upshifting of the transmission of the vehicle is completed, retarding of the i...