US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on Nov. 3 for "Vehicle steering system providing steering assist based on lateral acceleration" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,303, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle steering system providing steering assist based on lateral acceleration" was invented by Shunsuke Nakajima (Tokyo), Akio Numakura (Tokyo) and Hideki Doi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor vehicle steering system comprises: a steering control-quantity calculation unit for calculating a steering control quantity to move a motor vehicle closer to its target running road-route line; a lateral acceleration detection unit for detecting a lateral acceleration of the motor vehicle; a steering control-quantity limit-value calculation unit for calculat...