MUMBAI, India, March 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202547017220 A) filed by Alps Alpine Co. Ltd., Tokyo, on Feb. 27, for 'steering wheel unit.'
Inventor(s) include Miyagawa, Hayato; and Abe, Shinya.
The application for the patent was published on March 7, under issue no. 10/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Since there is necessarily a dead zone where a sensor cannot be placed due to appearance and design restrictions of a steering wheel unit, the purpose of the present invention is to provide a steering wheel unit capable of determining whether there is contact of a hand of an operator even in a dead zone where there is no sensor. In this steering wheel u...