US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Sept. 1 for "Vehicle control apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,619, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control apparatus" was invented by Chihiro Oguro (Tokyo), Kentaro Ishii (Tokyo), Kazumi Kojima (Tokyo) and Yoshinobu Yamazaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus to be applied to a vehicle includes an electric motor, a brake mechanism, and a control system. The control system increases a friction braking force of the brake mechanism while reducing a regenerative braking force of the electric motor, in deceleration traveling performed in a low vehicle speed range where a vehicle speed of the vehicle is less than a first threshold in a ...