ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,446, issued on June 23, was assigned to Alps Alpine Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Current sensor" was invented by Manabu Tamura (Miyagi-ken, Japan) and Chiaki Ueda (Miyagi-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current sensor includes units each of which has a bus bar through which current flows, a magnetic sensor facing one of plate surfaces of the bus bar, a shield facing the other plate surface. The units have a large-current unit and a small-current unit. A first distance between the bus bar and the magnetic sensor in a normal direction of the plate surfaces of the bus bar is the same as a distance L1A of the large-current unit and a d...