US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Aug. 25 for "Control device for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,333, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device for vehicle" was invented by Kenta Ikenaga (Toyota, Japan) and Yuki Sugo (Seto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ECU includes a nonvolatile memory. An SOC acquisition unit acquires SOCc, which is a current SOC of a battery. A triangleSOC calculation unit calculates a difference triangleSOC (=|SOCm-SOCc|) between an SOCm (memory SOC) stored in the nonvolatile memory and the SOCc. A rewriting unit rewrites the SOCm stored in the nonvolatile memory to the SOCc, on the condition: triangleSOCless thanthreshold value S1 during charging, tria...