US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 10 for "Hybrid vehicle deceleration utilizing fuel cut and increase in engine rotational speed" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,233, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Hybrid vehicle deceleration utilizing fuel cut and increase in engine rotational speed" was invented by Yoshihisa Umemura (Toyota, Japan), Suguru Kumazawa (Toyota, Japan) and Yasutaka Tsuchida (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The hybrid vehicle includes an engine coupled to a drive shaft, a first motor that rotates the engine a second motor coupled to the drive shaft, a transmission interposed between the engine and the first motor, and the second motor, and a control device configured to execute a decrease process and an increase process. The ...