US Patent Issued to TOKIN on July 28 for "Reactor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,025, issued on July 28, was assigned to TOKIN Corp. (Miyagi, Japan).

"Reactor" was invented by Katsuaki Tamashiro (Sendai, Japan), Yuji Nitobe (Sendai, Japan), Masahiro Kondo (Sendai, Japan), Norimitsu Hoshi (Sendai, Japan) and Hideaki Hayasaka (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reactor includes a coil having a winding part, a holding member, and a magnetic core. The winding part is partially buried inside the holding member, and has an upper exposed part and a lower exposed part exposed from the holding member in the vertical direction (Z direction). The upper exposed part has an upper curved surface part. The upper cur...