US Patent Issued to ALPS ALPINE on Oct. 7 for "Current detecting device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,172, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Current detecting device" was invented by Keisuke Nakayama (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Yasumasa Usuba (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Satoshi Asayama (Tokyo), Shinichi Tanaka (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Manabu Tamura (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Yuu Kumagai (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Junichi Hosogoe (Miyagi-ken, Japan) and Tatsuya Yamaguchi (Miyagi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current detecting device has: a bus bar through which a current under measurement flows; a fastening member for fastening an external member to the bus bar; a chassis formed integrally with the bus bar and a shield, ...