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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:
Feb. 20, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2004
Applicant:
Yoshinori Oono, Anjo, JP;
Inventor:
Yoshinori Oono, Anjo, JP;
Assignee:
Aisin AW Co., Ltd., Anjo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60K 1/00 (2006.01); B60W 10/08 (2006.01); B60W 10/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A vehicle including an electrically powered machine, a parking gear mechanically connected to the electrically powered machine, a parking lock mechanism that locks the parking gear, a sensor that detects a rotor position of the electrically powered machine, and a controller that reads the rotor position when a parking range is selected and judges, on the basis of a change in the rotor position, whether a failure has occurred in the parking lock mechanism.