US Patent Issued to DENSO on June 30 for "Laser radar device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,588, issued on June 30, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Laser radar device" was invented by Hiroshi Asami (Kariya-city, Japan), Kazuhisa Onda (Kariya-city, Japan) and Mitsuhiro Kiyono (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser radar device includes: a light source; a mirror rotatable about a rotation shaft to reflect laser light emitted by the light source; a window; and a detector to detect laser light. The mirror has a low reflection area having a lower reflectance than the other region of the mirror, in a state where a mirror surface faces toward the light source, at position adjacent to the ligh...