US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 1 for "Solar control device and method, and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,076, issued on July 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Solar control device and method, and vehicle" was invented by Junichiro Tamao (Nagoya, Japan) and Tetsuro Nakamura (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar control device controls a solar power generation system having at least one first group including a solar panel and a first DC/DC converter and at least one second group including a second DC/DC converter and a battery. The solar control device includes an electronic control unit that sets an output command value for the second DC/DC converter such that the output command value periodically sw...