ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,085, issued on June 10, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Electronic control device" was invented by Atsushi Matsuoka (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Even when generation of resistance value increase abnormality is detected in one of GND harnesses of two systems, current restriction is not immediately executed on the abnormal system but the start of current restriction is delayed within a range in which a rise in temperature of a low heat resistance component in an ECU does not exceed a limit in terms of the heat resistance performance and/or the durability performance."
The patent was fil...