US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 29 for "Hybrid electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,118, issued on April 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Hybrid electric vehicle" was invented by Takahiro Yoshida (Nagoya, Japan), Masahiro Kachi (Nagakute, Japan) and Satoshi Masuda (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The hybrid electric vehicle includes an engine, a motor, a clutch, an accelerator operation amount detecting unit, and a control device. The control device is configured to include: a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the accelerator operation amount is equal to or greater than a threshold value when there is a start request for the engine; and an ignition timi...