The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2024
Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., Hitachinaka, JP;
Benjamin Kruse, Sunbury, OH (US);
Michael Sadie, Sunbury, OH (US);
ASTEMO, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A road-surface inclined-state detection method includes an acquisition step of acquiring a vehicle state where pitching moment causing front wheels of a vehicle to move upward in a vertical direction relative to rear wheels of the vehicle is applied to the vehicle, and where rear suspensions suspending the rear wheels are stroked in a compressing direction, a count step of starting counting after the vehicle state acquired in the acquisition step meets a predetermined condition, and continuing the counting until the vehicle state fails to meet the predetermined condition, and an inclined-state detection step of detecting an inclined state of a road surface R on which the vehicle travels, according to count values counted in the count step.