US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on March 11 for "In-vehicle equipment and deterioration determining method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,898, issued on March 11, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"In-vehicle equipment and deterioration determining method" was invented by Yuya Nakamura (Tokyo), Taichi Yoshida (Tokyo) and Tomoki Watanabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle device includes a housing having an opening, an openable and closable cover disposed over the opening, a sealing member disposed around the opening such that the sealing member is held between the housing and the cover when the cover is closed, at least one first vibration sensor to measure mechanical vibration of the cover, and a degradation determiner to determine w...