ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,928, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Vehicle wire harness protection device" was invented by Hiroshi Nakano (Tokyo), Nobuyasu Kanekawa (Tokyo), Takao Fukuda (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Kentaro Jumonji (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Included are: a current detection element which detects a current flowing through a wire harness which supplies power to in-vehicle equipment mounted on a vehicle; a standard temperature generation unit which obtains a standard temperature by using a predetermined value or a detection value of a predetermined temperature sensor among a plurality ...