US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on June 17 for "Control method for series hybrid vehicle and series hybrid vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,625, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Control method for 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: "In a control method of a vehicle, an electric power consumption, which is an electric power consumed by the motoring, includes a friction electric power consumption, which is an electric power consumption of the motoring determined according to friction of the internal...