US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on Aug. 25 for "Control unit and steering device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,499, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Control unit and steering device" was invented by Hiroaki Kurihara (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit includes plural control devices configured to control drive of an electric motor. The plural control devices have general functions used for operating the electric motor both during a normal state and during a fault state, the normal state being where the plural control devices is working properly, the fault state being where any one of the plural control devices is having a fault. The plural control devices have normal-t...