US Patent Issued to DENSO on Aug. 25 for "Current sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,917, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Current sensor" was invented by Ryo Miyamoto (Kariya-city, Japan), Akito Sasaki (Kariya-city, Japan) and Kenji Tokunaga (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current sensor includes a bus bar, a core having a core hole, a gap forming portion, a core lateral portion, and a core bottom portion, a detection unit. The detection unit is located in a gap. A magnetic permeability of the core lateral portion is different from a magnetic permeability of the core bottom portion."

The patent was filed on May 10, 2024, under Application No. 18/660,914.

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