US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on April 29 for "Load estimation apparatus, load estimation method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,257, issued on April 29, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Load estimation apparatus, load estimation method, and program" was invented by Akihisa Kawauchi (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Kono (Tokyo), Koji Uchida (Tokyo) and Teruo Yamashita (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load estimation apparatus includes: an acceleration sensor attached to at least one of a bogie body supporting wheels or a vehicle body attached to the bogie body and configured to measure a first acceleration; and a control unit configured to estimate a load which is applied to the bogie body on the basis of load information which is ac...