US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 13 for "Controller for hybrid electric vehicle and method for controlling hybrid electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,198, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Controller for hybrid electric vehicle and method for controlling hybrid electric 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 hybrid electric vehicle includes an engine that includes a filter collecting PM from exhaust gas. A controller for the vehicle executes a driving force switching process, a motoring process, and a setting process. The driving force switching process reduces braking torque, which is generated by a drive system duri...