US Patent Issued to HITACHI ASTEMO on April 21 for "Electric-parking-brake control device and electric-parking-brake control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,142, issued on April 21, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Electric-parking-brake control device and electric-parking-brake control method" was invented by Shunsuke Aritomi (Tokyo), Shinji Seto (Tokyo), Norikazu Matsuzaki (Hitachinaka, Japan), Kimio Nishino (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Daisuke Kojima (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Accurately controlling pressing thrust regardless of an individual difference and a use situation of a brake apparatus, and the like are set forth herein. The present invention controls a motor that applies thrust to a piston that presses a brake pad, in a current varia...