US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Aug. 12 for "Control device of vehicle, vehicle, and method of activating door to open and close and slope plate to deploy" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,444, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device of vehicle, vehicle, and method of activating door to open and close and slope plate to deploy" was invented by Kentaro Oya (Toyota, Japan), Ryo Kanda (Nissin, Japan), Seiji Kanda (Miyoshi, Japan), Masaaki Tanaka (Toyota, Japan), Naoya Ishida (Chiryu, Japan) and Chihiro Date (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device of a vehicle is installed in a vehicle including: a body having a vehicle cabin and a floor panel constituting a floor of the vehicle cabin; a door opening-closing mechanism that drives a door mounted on the b...