US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 1 for "Fuel cell vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,818, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Fuel cell vehicle" was invented by Osamu Hamanoi (Toyota, Japan), Masashi Nakamura (Nagoya, Japan) and Naoki Tomi (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell vehicle may include: a fuel cell stack configured to generate electric power for a traction motor; a compressor configured to supply air to the fuel cell stack, the compressor including an impeller and a motor configured to rotate the impeller; and a controller configured to decrease a rotation speed of the motor when detecting accelerator-off. The controller may be configured to decrease...