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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:
Sep. 22, 1992
Filed:
Feb. 05, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Jidosha Kiki Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
318488 ; 318-2 ; 318489 ; 180 791 ;
Abstract
A method of controlling an electric power steering apparatus includes the steps of determining a steering state in accordance with a detection value and a retrieval value of a motor terminal across voltage, and limiting a motor current when a steering wheel held state is determined as the steering state determination result and a motor current value in the steering wheel held state is a predetermined value or more.