US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 30 for "Hybrid vehicle control for controlling an inverter to cancel dragging torque" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,056, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Hybrid vehicle control for controlling an inverter to cancel dragging torque" was invented by Kazuya Fujita (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid electric vehicle of this disclosure includes an engine; a first motor; a planetary gear with three rotating elements connected to three axes of the first motor, the engine, and a drive shaft connected to an axle; a second motor connected to the drive shaft; first and second inverters driving the first and second motors; a power storage device connected to the first and second inverters via power l...