US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on May 20 for "Reactor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,153, issued on May 20, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Reactor" was invented by Naotoshi Furukawa (Mie, Japan), Kohei Yoshikawa (Mie, Japan), Seiji Shitama (Mie, Japan) and Takehito Kobayashi (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reactor is provided with a coil including a pair of winding portions arranged in parallel, a magnetic core to be arranged inside and outside the winding portions, a holding member for specifying mutual positions of the coil and the magnetic core, a case for accommodating an ass...