US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 3 for "Control device for hybrid vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,859, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device for hybrid vehicle" was invented by Yoshihisa Umemura (Nagoya, Japan), Suguru Kumazawa (Nisshin, Japan) and Yasutaka Tsuchida (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for a hybrid vehicle, includes a deceleration control unit configured to control an engine and a motor as traveling power sources to control deceleration of the hybrid vehicle, a fuel cut control unit configured to restrict or permit fuel cut in the engine based on establishment or non-establishment of a predetermined condition, a downhill control unit config...