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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 12, 1999
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A controller for controlling a hybrid front-and-rear-drive automotive vehicle including a front wheel and a rear wheel an engine, an electric generator operated by the engine, and an electric motor operable with an electric energy generated by the electric generator, and wherein one and the other of the front and rear wheels is driven by the engine and the electric motor, respectively, the controller includes an electric energy storage device, and a cooperative energy supply device for supplying an electric current from the electric energy storage device to the electric motor, concurrently with a supply of an electric energy from the electric generator to the electric motor, to operate the electric motor for driving the other of the front and rear wheels.