US Patent Issued to NHK SPRING on Aug. 25 for "Engine control apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,566, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NHK SPRING Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Engine control apparatus" was invented by Sachio Ooshita (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engine control apparatus includes a lever member, an input shaft, a potentiometer, an output gear, a motor, a shift arm, a reduction gear mechanism, and a force transmission mechanism. The force transmission mechanism includes a damper unit. When the lever member moves in a first direction or a second direction, the motor rotates based on an output of the potentiometer. The rotation of the motor is transmitted to the shift arm via the reduction gear...