US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 3 for "Control device for hybrid electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,188, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device for hybrid electric vehicle" was invented by Masato Iijima (Aichi-ken, Japan) and Masaki Hayashi (Iwakura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device is applied to a hybrid electric vehicle in which an internal combustion engine and a motor generator are provided as a prime mover, and the high-voltage battery is charged using the power of the internal combustion engine and the autonomous operation is performed. The control device executes a process of setting the idle rotation speed of the internal combustion engine while the vehic...