ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,391, issued on April 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).
"Control apparatus for vehicle" was invented by Naoki Nakanishi (Nagoya, Japan) and Masato Yoshikawa (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus for a vehicle that includes an engine, an electric motor and a clutch provided between the engine and the electric motor. An engine-start delay control is executed in a case in which a requested drive amount is realized by only a torque of the electric motor and a first starting manner is being selected as an engine starting manner. Then, in a case in which a predetermined time elapses from ...