US Patent Issued to Furuno Electric on July 7 for "Bandpass filter and radar device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,583, issued on July 7, was assigned to Furuno Electric Co. Ltd. (Nishinomiya, Japan).

"Bandpass filter and radar device" was invented by Takuya Yamaguchi (Nishinomiya, Japan) and Keisuke Tanaka (Nishinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bandpass filter (includes a dielectric substrate, a first strip line formed on the dielectric substrate, resonators coupled to the first strip line, and a second strip line formed on the dielectric substrate coupled to the resonators. The resonators include a plurality of inductor elements formed on the dielectric substrate and composed of rectangular conductors having a long side direction a...