US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 28 for "Controller for hybrid electric vehicle and method for controlling hybrid electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,565, issued on Jan. 28, 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 Masahiro Kachi (Nagakute, Japan) and Takehiro Komatsu (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller executes a first restarting process when restarting of an engine is requested under a condition where an engine speed is less than a determination speed. In the first restarting process, cranking of the engine is performed by a motor generator in a state in which the motor generator is connected to a crankshaft through engagement of a clu...