US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 18 for "Roll vibration damping control system for vehicle and target roll moment computing method therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,974, issued on March 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Roll vibration damping control system for vehicle and target roll moment computing method therefor" was invented by Shota Tanzan (Gotemba, Japan) and Etsuo Katsuyama (Hiratsuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roll vibration damping control system includes an electronic control unit configured to: compute a sum of a product of a roll moment of inertia and a roll angular acceleration of a vehicle body, a product of a roll damping coefficient and a first-order integral of the roll angular acceleration, and a product of an equivalent roll stiffness of...