US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 20 for "Driving force control device for right and left wheel independent drive type vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,976, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving force control device for right and left wheel independent drive type vehicle" was invented by Takahiro Kondo (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A left electric motor for driving a left wheel and a right electric motor for driving a right wheel paired with the left wheel are provided, and a center of gravity position of the right and left wheel independent drive type vehicle is estimated, and a correction torque for canceling a yaw moment generated in accordance with a difference between the estimated center of gravity position of the righ...