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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2022
Applicant:
Autoliv Development Ab, Vargarda, SE;
Inventor:
Yuki Yamazaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Autoliv Development AB, Vårgårda, SE;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 1/046 (2013.01);
Abstract
A hands-on detection device and a computer program that can simultaneously improve the speed of determining hands-on or hands-off and the accuracy of such determination. A hands-on detection ECU that performs hands-on detection of the rim part by passing a current through a sensor electrode provided on the rim part, hands-on detection being performed using two modes in which the current for the hands-on detection is different.