US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on March 24 for "Steering column adjusting device and steering column adjusting method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,502, issued on March 24, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Steering column adjusting device and steering column adjusting method" was invented by Shogo Usui (Tokyo) and Koji Hashimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering column adjusting device includes an actuator that drives a posture adjusting mechanism of a steering column, and a detection unit that detects a current posture position of a steering column, from an operating value indicating an operation amount of the actuator based on one of two movable limit positions of a posture adjusting mechanism, and stores an operating value indicating an overload ...