US Patent Issued to OMRON on March 3 for "Contactless power feed apparatus and power transmission coil" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,528, issued on March 3, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Contactless power feed apparatus and power transmission coil" was invented by Goro Nakao (Kyoto, Japan), Yuki Ito (Kyoto, Japan), Taichi Mishima (Kyoto, Japan), Yusuke Kawai (Kyoto, Japan), Hiroyuki Ibuki (Kyoto, Japan) and Yoshihisa Ishikawa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A winding of a transmission coil included in a power transmission device of a contactless power feed apparatus and serving to transmit AC power to a power reception device contactlessly is formed of a wiring pattern provided on a substrate. The transmission coil is divided into parti...