US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on March 3 for "Torque estimation apparatus for internal combustion engine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,863, issued on March 3, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Torque estimation apparatus for internal combustion engine" was invented by Hiroki Manabe (Tokyo), Kazuhiro Nishiwaki (Tokyo) and Taiga Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a torque estimation apparatus for an internal combustion engine which can learn the variation in the output torque of the internal combustion engine caused by the individual difference and the aging change of the internal combustion engine with good accuracy. A torque estimation apparatus for an internal combustion engine calculates a first estimation torque using a torq...