US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on July 7 for "Vehicle control device to transition from a first travel mode to a second travel mode based on continuation of a state for a predetermined delay time" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,661, issued on July 7, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control device to transition from a first travel mode to a second travel mode based on continuation of a state for a predetermined delay time" was invented by Kenichi Hattaha (Tokyo) and Naoyuki Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle travels in any travel mode among a plurality of travel modes including a first travel mode of stopping actuation of an internal combustion engine and traveling by an electric motor driving a drive wheel depending on power supply from a power storage device, and a second travel mode of actuating the internal combu...