US Patent Issued to SUBARU on July 7 for "Vehicle control apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,667, issued on July 7, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control apparatus" was invented by Jun Oosawa (Tokyo), Masaki Komuro (Tokyo) and Tetsu Matsuzaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus to be applied to a hybrid vehicle includes an electric motor, an engine, a clutch mechanism, a torque converter, and a control system. In a case of switching a traveling mode of the hybrid vehicle from a motor mode to an engine mode in response to an increase in requested driving force from a first driving force to a second driving force resulting from an operation of an accelerator of the vehicle, the con...