US Patent Issued to ISUZU MOTORS on Dec. 2 for "Output control system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,771, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Output control system" was invented by Yuta Ikeda (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An output control system includes: an accelerator pedal; a motor, for driving a vehicle, that increases the output as a depression amount of the accelerator pedal increases; a detent mechanism that increases resistance acting on the accelerator pedal at a position where the depression amount of the accelerator pedal reaches a predetermined depression amount that is smaller than a maximum depression amount of the accelerator pedal; a depression amount acquiring part that ac...