US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Oct. 27 for "Driving force control apparatus for four-wheel drive vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,908, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Driving force control apparatus for four-wheel drive vehicle" was invented by Shigeru Nakayama (Tokyo), Akira Kito (Tokyo) and Masaya Miura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving force control apparatus (1) is configured to determine a front and rear wheel drive distribution which is a ratio of driving force between front wheels (21) and rear wheels (22) in a four-wheel drive vehicle, and configured to calculate positive or negative standard driving acceleration (XG) obtained based on an input amount from a driving force instruction device (42) of the veh...