US Patent Issued to YAZAKI on Sept. 29 for "Sensor unit and sensor assembly" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,996, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sensor unit and sensor assembly" was invented by Shinpei Kato (Makinohara, Japan), Shingo Nomoto (Makinohara, Japan), Keisuke Yamauchi (Makinohara, Japan), Shimpei Ando (Makinohara, Japan) and Tadashi Ogawa (Makinohara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor unit according to the present disclosure includes: a sensor element; a pair of conductive members that extend in parallel with each other from the sensor element; and a resin-molded portion that covers part of the pair of conductive members. The pair of conductive members each includes: a base end portion con...