US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on July 1 for "Electric motor-assisted bicycle and motor control apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,351, issued on July 1, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Electric motor-assisted bicycle and motor control apparatus" was invented by Yuki Kimpara (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric motor-assisted bicycle includes a vehicle body motion sensor to detect a change in an attitude of a vehicle body relative to a road surface, a torque sensor to detect a pedal force on a pedal, a motor to generate an assist force to be added to the pedal force, a motor controller configured or programmed to control the assist force applied by the motor depending on the pedal force, and a sharp-curve-traveling...