US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on June 17 for "Braking control device for a vehicle and vehicle with braking control" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,533, issued on June 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Braking control device for a vehicle and vehicle with braking control" was invented by Yoichi Hoshi (Wako, Japan) and Kazuya Sakurai (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a regenerative brake of a rotating electric machine and a friction brake which is a mechanical brake as braking means for applying a braking force to rotations of the left and right wheels at the front and rear of the vehicle. The vehicle also includes an SOC information obtaining part that obtains an amount of charge (SOC) of a battery of the vehicle and an ECU. The ECU ...