US Patent Issued to YAZAKI on July 14 for "Current sensor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,050, issued on July 14, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Current sensor" was invented by Toshiaki Fukuhara (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current sensor includes a busbar, a first magnetic sensor, and a first coil, and where a longitudinal direction of the busbar is defined as an X axis direction, and a width direction of the busbar is defined as a Y axis direction, the first magnetic sensor measures a magnetic field in the Y axis direction, the first coil is arranged such that an axis of the first coil is parallel to the Y axis direction, and the first magnetic sensor is arranged inside the first coil."

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