MUMBAI, India, Aug. 31 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202514121071 A) filed by Suzuki Motor Corporation on December 03, 2025, for Bi-Fuel Vehicle.

Inventors include Abukawa, Takunori; and Nasuda, Yuki -.

The application for the patent was published on August 28, 2026, under issue no. 35/2026.

Abstract: It is to provide a bi-fuel vehicle capable of preventing combustion stability or exhaust gas properties from being deteriorated. [Solution] There are provided: a gasoline tank 4 to store a gasoline as liquid fuel; a gas fuel tank 5 to store a CNG as gas fuel; a fuel switching device 6 to switch a fuel to be supplied into a combustion chamber of each cylinder of an engine 2, between the stored gasoline in the gasoline tank 4 and the stored CNG in the gas fuel tank 5; an ECU 8 to control an idle stop of automatically stopping the engine on a predetermined automatic stop condition but restarting the engine on a predetermined restart condition, the ECU being configured to prohibit a fuel switch for the engine over a predetermined period of time after beginning of a restart for the engine automatically-stopped by the idle stop. [Selected figure] FIG. 1

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