US Patent Issued to Hella on Nov. 18 for "Sensor with a sheet metal element and a carrier to which the sheet metal element is fastened" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,522, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Sensor with a sheet metal element and a carrier to which the sheet metal element is fastened" was invented by Jann Berhorst (Borchen, Germany) and Sascha Kuhlmann (Geseke, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor is provided with a sheet metal element and a carrier. The sheet metal element is arranged on a first side of the carrier, the sheet metal element extends within a ring that lies between an inner circle and an outer circle. The sheet metal element includes cutting structures that are cut into retaining elements of the carrier for faste...