ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,068, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Vehicle control device, and overheat protection device" was invented by Hiroshi Nakano (Tokyo), Nobuyasu Kanekawa (Tokyo), Takao Fukuda (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Kentaro Jumonji (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes: a current detecting unit for detecting a current flowing through a lead wire, and outputting a current detection value; a current interrupting unit for interrupting the current flowing through the lead wire; and a computing unit for computing a temperature rise value caused by Joule heat in the...