ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,251, issued on June 3, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Electric parking brake device and electric parking brake control method" was invented by Shinji Seto (Tokyo), Shunsuke Aritomi (Tokyo), Ryu Kai (Tokyo), Kimio Nishino (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Daisuke Kojima (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided fire an electric parking brake device and an electric parking brake control method that can apply an appropriate clamping force by accelerating data measurement and by suppressing influence of load fluctuation during idle running. For this end, the electric parking brake device of the present...