ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,176, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Hybrid electric vehicle" was invented by Kotaro Maeda (Nisshin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Controls when the abnormality in which the switching element of the lower arm of the step-up converter is short-circuited occurs and connection between the storage device and the step-up converter and the third inverter is released by the disconnection device the power generated by the first motor by the power from the engine in a state of turning off the switching element of the upper arm of the step-up converter and turning off the third inverter in a stat...