ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,985, issued on April 29, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Ibaraki, Japan).
"Control apparatus" was invented by Yoshifumi Kawasaki (Hitachinaka, Japan), Makoto Matsuura (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Ryusuke Hirao (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller as a control apparatus controls a shock absorber of a control target wheel (a rear wheel) located in back of a detection target portion (a front wheel) of an unsprung acceleration sensor based on a detection value detected by the unsprung acceleration sensor on the front wheel side provided on a vehicle. In this case, the controller identifies a movement distance (...