US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA, MIRISE Technologies on July 28 for "Shunt-based current sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,315, issued on July 28, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and MIRISE Technologies Corp. (Nisshin, Japan).

"Shunt-based current sensor" was invented by Shogo Kawahara (Nisshin, Japan), Yoshikazu Furuta (Nisshin, Japan) and Tomohiro Nezuka (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shunt-based current sensor executes redundancy detection of a load current flowing through a load by using a shunt resistor. The shunt-based current sensor includes a reference resistor, a current excitation circuit, at least two voltage measurement circuits and a signal processing circuit. The refere...