ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,957, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Torque sensor fault detection method" was invented by Masaya Kusatani (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A torque sensor fault detection method is provided. When a torque sensor is normal when a vehicle is going straight, the torque sensor points to a torque midpoint, but when the vehicle is going straight on an inclined road, the torque midpoint is offset due to the slope of the road surface, and the torque sensor is mistakenly detected to be faulty. If a direction of a rudder angle is opposite to an offset direction of a detection value of the torque sensor, it...