US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on March 3 for "Control device for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,262, issued on March 3, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Control device for vehicle" was invented by Takuro Shimizu (Tokyo), Shotaro Yamazaki (Tokyo), Masayuki Ueno (Tokyo), Shogo Nishizawa (Tokyo), Yosuke Ojima (Tokyo), Munetsugu Hanji (Tokyo) and Hisanori Yanagida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for a vehicle equipped with a steering system including a steering wheel (13), a rack (12) for steering the wheels (4) of the vehicle, and a redundant arrangement for transmitting a displacement of the steering wheel to the rack, wherein upon detecting a failure in the redundant arrangement, the control ...