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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,898, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control device" was invented by Hiroki Hayashi (Tokyo), Hirofumi Yagura (Tokyo), Hiroyasu Yamashita (Tokyo) and Ryo Shimizu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device (108) for controlling a vehicle (100) that is capable of traveling in a parallel mode using engine drive torque provided by an engine (101) and motor assist torque provided by a motor (107), the control device comprising a control unit that causes the vehicle to travel using the engine drive torque and the motor assist torque when a requested drive torque exceeds a first threshol...