US Patent Issued to NIDEC on April 22 for "Control device, electric power steering device, and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,842, issued on April 22, was assigned to NIDEC Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Control device, electric power steering device, and control method" was invented by Shuji Endo (Kyoto, Japan), Sohei Miyake (Kyoto, Japan), Masaya Ishikawa (Kyoto, Japan) and Daisuke Notsu (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes a reaction force controller to generate an input torque input to the control target and control a reaction force transmitted from a steering wheel to a steering person, an assist controller to generate a correction torque to correct the input torque based on an output of the control target and a nominal model, ...