ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,593, issued on June 16, was assigned to Hino Motors Ltd. (Tokyo) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Travel control device for fuel cell vehicle" was invented by Koichiro Taniguchi (Hino, Japan), Minoru Kowada (Hino, Japan) and Jun Namima (Hino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travel control device includes: a switching determination unit configured to determine whether a traveling mode of the fuel cell vehicle is switched from a first traveling mode in which the fuel cell vehicle travels mainly using power generated by a fuel cell to a second traveling mode in which the fuel cell vehicle travels using discharge power of...