US Patent Issued to HONDA MOTOR on July 29 for "Preview road surface detector, suspension controller, and preview road surface detection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,857, issued on July 29, was assigned to HONDA MOTOR Co. LTD (Tokyo).

"Preview road surface detector, suspension controller, and preview road surface detection method" was invented by Kazuya Konada (Saitama, Japan), Takashi Yanagi (Saitama, Japan), Ryosuke Yamazaki (Saitama, Japan) and Takehito Masubuchi (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preview road surface detector capable of discontinuing predictive control is provided, which suppresses the energy consumption required to determine whether predictive control should be discontinued. The preview road surface detector includes: a distance sensor provided on a vehicle bod...