US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 7 for "Vehicle, and control method of vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,683, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle, and control method of vehicle" was invented by Yu Oe (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a vehicle including an internal combustion engine, a generator a traction battery, a relay, an electric motor, an auxiliary battery, an electric heater, and a controller. The controller is configured to place the relay in a cut-off state when, at the time of the internal combustion engine being started, temperature of the traction battery is lower than a first predetermined temperature, and charging the auxiliary battery with electric power ...