US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 28 for "Control device of hybrid electric vehicle for implementing vibration damping for the vehicle body using electric motors" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,269, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device of hybrid electric vehicle for implementing vibration damping for the vehicle body using electric motors" was invented by Keita Obara (Nisshin, Japan), Yoshihiro Furuya (Toyota, Japan) and Hideyuki Handa (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During the execution of the combustion stopping process for continuing the combustion of the remaining cylinders while the combustion of some of the plurality of cylinders provided in the engine is stopped, the first vibration damping process for generating the vibration damping torque in the fir...