US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 8 for "Controller and control method for hybrid electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,460, issued on April 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Controller and control method for hybrid electric 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 controller is employed in a vehicle including an engine, a motor generator, and a hydraulically-driven clutch. The controller includes a CPU that executes: a first starting process that starts, when starting the engine under a condition in which a system shaft torque is less than a shaft torque determination value, combustion in the engine after increasing an engine rotation speed ...