US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO on Oct. 27 for "Running drive control device for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,979, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Running drive control device for vehicle" was invented by Jumpei Mori (Tokyo), Kazuhiro Ohi (Tokyo), Yuki Ohno (Tokyo), Takahiro Chujo (Tokyo), Shinya Kawai (Tokyo) and Shu Fujihashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a vehicle 1 in which front wheels 4 are driven by transferring power to the front wheels 4 from an engine 3 and a front motor 2 via a transaxle 7, and rear wheels 6 are driven by a rear motor 5, thus causing the vehicle 1 to run, the vehicle 1 includes a hybrid control unit 18 that calculates a required output for running the vehicle, ...