US Patent Issued to AutoNetworks Technologies, Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Sumitomo Electric Industries on Nov. 11 for "On-vehicle control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,348, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to AutoNetworks Technologies Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan), Sumitomo Wiring Systems Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"On-vehicle control device" was invented by Junji Tsuchiya (Osaka, Japan), Takafumi Kawakami (Osaka, Japan) and Seiji Takahashi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An on-vehicle control device (1) includes a control unit (14). The control unit (14) switches a block unit (11) to a blocking state based on a first blocking characteristic (BC1). A relay (10) is turned off based on a second blocking characteristic (BC2). In the second block...