US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on Feb. 17 for "Motor control method, fluid supply device, vehicle height adjustment device, and saddle-type vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,489, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Motor control method, fluid supply device, vehicle height adjustment device, and saddle-type vehicle" was invented by Naoya Kuroiwa (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor control method includes a determination step of determining whether a contact portion exists, which is a portion where the screw and the nut member are in contact with each other at a location different from a mating portion, when the motor is energized to move the nut member in a first direction, and when the contact portion is determined to exist in the determina...