US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on July 7 for "Hybrid vehicle control method and hybrid vehicle control device for heating catalytic converter" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,664, issued on July 7, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Hybrid vehicle control method and hybrid vehicle control device for heating catalytic converter" was invented by Akira Yamanouchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a manifold catalytic converter, which is a catalyst above an exhaust passage, is warmed, a control unit is configured to control the energization of an electric heater of the manifold catalytic converter, and/or the driving of an internal combustion engine in accordance with a battery SOC of a battery. This makes it possible in a hybrid vehicle to warm the manifold catalytic ...