US Patent Issued to HITACHI ASTEMO FRANCE, HITACHI ASTEMO HEILBRONN on March 3 for "Device for rapidly releasing an electromechanical parking brake" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,818, issued on March 3, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO FRANCE (Drancy, France) and HITACHI ASTEMO HEILBRONN GMBH (Heilbronn, Germany).

"Device for rapidly releasing an electromechanical parking brake" was invented by Julien Sasso (Champs sur Marne, France), Maxime Demandre (Stuttgart, Germany), Weiqiao Wang (Paris) and Alex Patrao Carqueijo (Pantin, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The releases of an electromechanical parking brake are controlled by measuring the change in the intensity (I) of the electrical current provided to the control motor, or a function derived from this intensity, and by extending the release of the brak...