US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Feb. 3 for "Steering device having an auxiliary equipment operation console having an electrode" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,917, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Steering device having an auxiliary equipment operation console having an electrode" was invented by Shotaro Odate (Saitama, Japan), Takafumi Komori (Saitama, Japan) and Kotaro Nakamura (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering device 1 accepts steering operations by a driver and comprises: an annular rim 20; a hub 23 located on the inner side of the rim 20; spokes 25L, 25R which extend radially from the hub 23 and which are connected to a rim inner circumference 21 of the rim 20; electrode devices 55L, 55R provided in the spokes 25L, 25R, respective...