US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 14 for "Hybrid electric vehicle with adaptive battery discharge control for catalyst warm-up" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,331, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Hybrid electric vehicle with adaptive battery discharge control for catalyst warm-up" was invented by Yoshinori Fujitake (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid electric vehicle includes a control device that performs travel control and battery control. The battery control includes: first discharge control that sets a lower limit voltage of the battery to a first lower limit value when the battery is not in a warm-up state of the catalyst device, and sets battery dischargeable power to a first upper limit value; and second discharge control t...