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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2000
Masao Ono, Yokohama, JP;
Nobuhito Ohnuma, Atsugi, JP;
Jun Morimoto, Atsugi, JP;
Hiroko Yoshikawa, Atsugi, JP;
Akifumi Kurita, Atsugi, JP;
Osamu Watanabe, Atsugi, JP;
Tokyo R & D Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A hybrid vehicle (,) including an internal combustion engine and electric motors and selectively uses them as a running drive source according to a running state. When one of wheels (,) driven by an engine (,) skids to rotate excessively, a motor (,) connected to that wheel is caused to make a regenerative operation to remedy the skid of the wheel, and running traction made insufficient due to the skid is compensated by driving another wheel (,) by a motor (,) of another wheel by using electric energy recovered by the regenerative operation.