US Patent Issued to KAWASAKI MOTORS on March 17 for "Controller of vehicle and vehicle including same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,830, issued on March 17, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Akashi, Japan).

"Controller of vehicle and vehicle including same" was invented by Katsuya Sano (Akashi, Japan) and Shohei Terai (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing circuitry included in a controller is configured to: when the processing circuitry acquires a shift command by which a first gear stage is shifted to a second gear stage, execute transmission rate reducing control of controlling a clutch actuator such that a power transmission rate is reduced; after the transmission rate reducing control is executed, execute shift control of controlling a s...