ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,447, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Alps Alpine Co. Ltd. (Japan).
"Current sensor" was invented by Manabu Tamura (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Keisuke Nakayama (Miyagi-ken, Japan) and Takahiro Taoka (Miyagi-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current sensor capable of efficiently cooling a busbar by using a cooling device includes a busbar, a shield disposed to face the busbar, a magnetic sensor disposed between the shield and the busbar, and an enclosure that integrally encases part of the busbar, the shield, and the magnetic sensor. When a side on which the busbar is disposed in the X-axis direction in which the busbar, the magn...