US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, DENSO on Nov. 3 for "Control system of electrified vehicle for executing limp home mode" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,003, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya-City, Japan).

"Control system of electrified vehicle for executing limp home mode" was invented by Satoshi Yasuda (Nagakute, Japan) and Taro Shimosaka (Seto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system includes a first control device, a processor, and a logic circuit. When a failure in the processor is detected, the first control device determines whether it is possible to perform a limp home mode, and when it is determined that it is possible to perform the limp home mode, outputs, to the logic circuit, a mode shift request fo...