US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on Sept. 8 for "Electronic control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,490, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Electronic control device" was invented by Ryo Akiba (Hitachinaka, Japan), Yoshio Kawai (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Keiko Ueno (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic control device capable of achieving both high heat dissipation and solder connection reliability is achieved. An electronic control device 101 includes a circuit board 3 mounted with an electronic component 7 and a connector 4, a base 1 housing this circuit board 3, a cover 2 closing this base 1, a heat dissipation pedestal 9 formed on the base 1, and a thermally con...