US Patent Issued to ISUZU MOTORS on April 14 for "Exhaust gas purification utilizing a clutch to switch between driving forces in a hybrid vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,345, issued on April 14, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Exhaust gas purification utilizing a clutch to switch between driving forces in a hybrid vehicle" was invented by Hikaru Ito (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes: an electric motor that generates a first driving force for rotationally driving drive wheels of the vehicle, an engine that generates a second driving force for rotationally driving the drive wheels of the vehicle, an exhaust gas purification device that purifies exhaust gas generated in the engine, a generator that generates electric power using the second driving ...