US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 23 for "Hybrid electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,953, issued on June 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Hybrid electric vehicle" was invented by Takayuki Shimauchi (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An HEV mode and a BEV mode is a hybrid electric vehicle capable of traveling, comprising: a radiator; an air conditioner including a condenser and a pressure sensor for performing air conditioning in a room; a cooling fan that operates in response to the rotation of the engine to blow cooling air to the radiator and the condenser; and a control unit that controls the operation of the engine and the air conditioner, wherein the control unit reduces the a...