ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,764, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ADVICS Co. LTD. (Kariya, Japan).
"Electric braking device" was invented by Yuichi Sakakibara (Kariya, Japan), Ryota Maeno (Kariya, Japan), Atsushi Takahashi (Kariya, Japan), Tsuyoshi Otake (Kariya, Japan), Shingo Onoda (Kariya, Japan) and Haruo Arakawa (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric braking device generates a braking force at a wheel via application of a pressing force by a piston by linear motion of the piston in response to the transmission of a forward-direction rotational torque from an electric motor to a linear motion conversion mechanism. The electric braking...