MUMBAI, India, Oct. 11 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517091516 A) filed by Honda Motor Co. Ltd., Tokyo, on Sept. 24, for 'clutch control device.'
Inventor(s) include Ono Junya; Tsuzuki Ryohei; Ryuzaki Tatsuya; Kaibe Yuma; Ito Asuka; and Yoshida Masahiro.
The application for the patent was published on Oct. 10, under issue no. 41/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A clutch control device (40A) is provided with a clutch device (26), a clutch actuator (50), a clutch operating element (4b), and a control unit (40). The control unit (40) has: an automatic control mode (M1) in which the clutch device (26) is automatically actuated by driving of the clutch actuator (50); a manual control mode (M2) in which the clutch device (26) is manually actuated by an operation input to the clutch operating element (4b); and a manual control intervention mode (M3) to which the control unit (40) shifts when an operation on the clutch operating element (4b) is detected during the automatic control mode (M1), and, when a state satisfying a prescribed return condition continues for a prescribed return time (T) during the manual control intervention mode (M3), the control unit (40) returns to the automatic control mode (M1)."
The patent application was internationally filed on Mar. 29, 2023, under International application No.PCT/JP2023/012850.
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