ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,104, issued on March 17, was assigned to KOA Corp. (Ina, Japan).
"Shunt resistor and shunt resistance device" was invented by Koichi Hirasawa (Ina, Japan), Susumu Toyoda (Ina, Japan) and Keishi Nakamura (Ina, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates a shunt resistor and a shunt resistance device. The shunt resistor (1) includes an electrode member (10). The electrode member (10) includes a contact portion (10a) contacting a resistance element (5), and a slit (20) formed on the contact portion (10a)."
The patent was filed on July 14, 2021, under Application No. 18/031,652.
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