US Patent Issued to JTEKT on Nov. 3 for "Steering device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,301, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Steering device" was invented by Syouma Edamoto (Ikoma, Japan), Tsutomu Tamura (Nara, Japan) and Robert Fuchs (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor control device includes: a steering member; an electric motor that drives a steering operation mechanism; a manual steering command value generation unit that generates a manual steering command value using steering torque; an integrated angle command value calculation unit that calculates an integrated angle command value by adding the manual steering command value to an automatic steering command value for...