US Patent Issued to SUBARU on April 21 for "Contact detection apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,112, issued on April 21, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Contact detection apparatus" was invented by Shiaki Higa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact detection apparatus includes a bumper beam, an absorber, a contact sensor, a tube holder, a deformation space, and an absorber support member. The bumper beam extends in a vehicle width direction. The absorber is disposed adjacent to the bumper beam and extends in the vehicle width direction. The contact sensor includes a pressure tube and is configured to output a signal corresponding to a change in pressure of the pressure tube. The pressure tube extends in the veh...