US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Nov. 18 for "Circuit assembly" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,060, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Circuit assembly" was invented by Taiji Yanagida (Osaka, Japan) and Hiroki Shimoda (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit assembly includes: a relay; a case that houses the relay; and a bus bar including a fastening part configured to be fastened to a connection part of the relay, and a heat transfer part configured to be in thermally conductive contact with an external heat dissipation target, wherein the relay includes an excitation conn...