US Patent Issued to NISSAN MOTOR on Aug. 18 for "Method of judging zero point abnormality of steering angle sensor and judging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,330, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Method of judging zero point abnormality of steering angle sensor and judging device" was invented by Yuta Okitsu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shouta Hamane (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of judging an abnormality of a zero point of a steering angle sensor that outputs a steering angle according to a turning operation amount of a steering shaft with a straight-ahead state of a vehicle being the zero point, the method has, when the steering angle which is a threshold value or larger continues to be output until travelling with a vehicl...