ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,430, issued on July 21, was assigned to VALEO INTERIOR CONTROLS (SHENZHEN) Co. LTD (Shenzhen, China).
"Method and apparatus for steering wheel touch detection" was invented by Chuan He (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for steering wheel touch detection is disclosed. The steering wheel is partitioned into at least one touch detection region and each touch detection region includes at least one touch detection sensor that is provided with a touch detection channel. For each touch detection channel, the method includes configuring a reference load with a preset capacitance value and reference resistance value, me...