US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO on July 21 for "Drive control device for electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,281, issued on July 21, was assigned to MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Drive control device for electric vehicle" was invented by Ryosuke Koga (Tokyo), Akira Maruyama (Tokyo) and Tetsuya Furuichi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a drive control device for an electric vehicle that includes brake devices (30a to 30d) provided for each of left and right wheels of the vehicle, a front motor (4) and a rear motor (6) for driving and regeneratively braking the wheels of the vehicle, a vehicle motion control unit (37) for calculating a brake application demanded amount corresponding to a yaw moment application amount to be a...