US Patent Issued to Yamaha Hatsudoki on July 28 for "Steering control system for two-wheeled vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,968, issued on July 28, was assigned to Yamaha Hatsudoki K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Steering control system for two-wheeled vehicle" was invented by Tomoyuki Higashi (Shizuoka, Japan), Mitsuharu Hasumi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Tatsuya Moriguchi (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device calculates resistive torque, which is directed in a direction opposite to a direction in which a steering shaft is rotated from a neutral position and corresponds to a vehicle turning value, which is a rotation angle of the steering shaft or a roll angle of a vehicle body, and controls an actuator that applies torque to the steering s...