US Patent Issued to NISSAN MOTOR on March 4 for "Control method for electric vehicle and control device for electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,352, issued on March 4, was assigned to NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Control method for electric vehicle and control device for electric vehicle" was invented by Katsunori Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Akira Sawada (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Nakajima (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kengo Fujiwara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method for an electric vehicle using a motor as a traveling drive source to decelerate by a regenerative braking force of the motor, including: obtaining an accelerator operation amount; estimating a disturbance torque acting on a vehicle body of the electric vehicle; obtaining an an...