US Patent Issued to JTEKT on Dec. 2 for "Motor control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,959, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Motor control device" was invented by Xin Zhou (Kiyosu, Japan), Naoki Shoji (Shiki-gun, Japan), Hidenori Itamoto (Tajima, Japan), Terutaka Tamaizumi (Okazaki, Japan), Hiromasa Tamaki (Okazaki, Japan), Shingo Nitta (Anjo, Japan) and Shunsuke Tsujii (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manual steering command value calculation unit is configured to use road information including information on a road reaction torque to calculate a manual steering command value when a first condition that at least one of input torques for which a dead zone processing unit is...