US Patent Issued to DENSO on Aug. 11 for "Optical sensing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,710, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Optical sensing device" was invented by Kazuhisa Onda (Kariya-city, Japan) and Mitsuhiro Kiyono (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical sensing device includes an optical unit and an accommodating unit. The accommodation unit includes an optical window portion which transmits the projected beam from the accommodation chamber to the detection area and transmits the reflected beam from the detection area to the accommodation chamber. The accommodation unit includes a holding portion which holds the optical window portion from a side of an o...