US Patent Issued to IHI on Sept. 30 for "Detection method of loading anomaly on vehicle, and detection apparatus thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,861, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to IHI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Detection method of loading anomaly on vehicle, and detection apparatus thereof" was invented by Satoru Tagawa (Tokyo) and Yoshiharu Kaneshima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a detection method of a loading anomaly, relationship between a steering control value of a vehicle and a proper turning radius for the steering control value is constructed as a control map. An actual turning radius of the vehicle is calculated by using a self-location detection function of the vehicle. A difference between the proper turning radius and the actual turning radius is calculate...