ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,344, issued on May 20, was assigned to SUZUKI MOTOR Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Toshihide Tachibana (Hamamatsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a vehicle control device including: an inverter that is configured to drive an electric motor; a DC/DC converter that is configured to step down a voltage output from a high voltage battery; a pre-charge circuit including a pre-charge switch; a voltage detector that is configured to detect an input voltage input to the inverter and the DC/DC converter; and a controller. When the input voltage is lower than the input voltage at the ...