US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on Aug. 19 for "Diagnostic apparatus and diagnostic method for rotational angle sensor, and control apparatus for actuator" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,646, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Diagnostic apparatus and diagnostic method for rotational angle sensor, and control apparatus for actuator" was invented by Akira Kiyomura (Isesaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diagnostic apparatus for a rotational angle sensor that outputs two correlated signals, corresponding to the rotational angle, obtains a reference value from the two correlated signals. Thereafter, the diagnostic apparatus for the rotational angle sensor diagnoses whether or not a failure has occurred in the rotational angle sensor based on whether or not a numerical ...