US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 23 for "Control device for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,816, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device for vehicle" was invented by Hirotsugu Hamada (Okazaki, Japan) and Kengo Nagai (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "ECU of the motor vehicle controls the driving condition of the engine and the shift stage of the automatic transmission. ECU controls a determination step of determining whether a downshift occurs in the accelerator-on state during the downshift associated with the accelerator-off, and a torque-up step of increasing the torque based on the operation of the electronic control throttle of the engine when the downshift o...