US Patent Issued to HITACHI ASTEMO on July 28 for "Driving force control device and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,884, issued on July 28, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Driving force control device and vehicle" was invented by Hiroaki Takuma (Hitachinaka, Japan), Takashi Okamoto (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Toshiyuki Innami (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving force control device for a vehicle having a driving unit capable of individually driving a left wheel and a right wheel, includes: a torque calculation unit for calculating a torque command value which is a torque to be generated in each of the left wheel and the right wheel; a traveling direction calculation unit for calculating a current tr...