US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on June 30 for "Vehicle brake system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,224, issued on June 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle brake system" was invented by Atsuki Ohira (Tokyo), Eisuke Horii (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Iwasaki (Tokyo), Masayuki Ueno (Tokyo), Shotaro Yamazaki (Tokyo), Takashi Shimada (Tokyo), Tomoaki Kotaki (Tokyo) and Yohei Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle brake system includes a switching valve switchable between a first state allowing communication between a first fluid pressure generating device and a frictional brake and a second state allowing communication between a second fluid pressure generating device and the frictional brake. The second fluid...