ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,151, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Inspection device, inspection method, and vehicle" was invented by Yasuhito Takei (Wako, Japan), Tsutomu Kamiyamaguchi (Wako, Japan) and Shuji Kawano (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection device for inspecting a vehicle in which drive force generated by a motor is transmitted to a drive wheel via a plurality of gears is provided. The inspection device includes a generation unit configured to cause the motor to generate torque in two rotation directions different from each other, in a state in which the vehicle is stopped, and an estimation unit...