ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,195, issued on May 27, was assigned to Tsukasa Electric Co. Ltd..
"Geared motor drive control mechanism" was invented by Akio Hidaka (Miyakonojo, Japan), Hiroyuki Takahashi (Tokyo) and Keigo Urashima (Miyakonojo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a drive control mechanism of a geared motor capable of executing a stopping operation between a start point and an end point in a drive range, maintaining this stopping operation, and smoothly and reliably executing respective operations that start from this stopped state without applying any external force other than a drive input of the electric motor. The drive control mech...