ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,109, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to GKN Automotive Ltd. (Birmingham, Great Britain).
"Magnetic circuit element for solenoid" was invented by Hideyuki Inose (Tochigi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic circuit element, used in combination with an adjoining core covering a solenoid having an axis, includes a plate having a soft magnetic material with a face configured to contact an axial end face of the core to form a magnetic path in combination with the core to conduct a magnetic flux. The plate forms a disk shape defining an opening around the axis and is dimensioned to extend the face from an inner periphery to an ...