US Patent Issued to NIDEC on Oct. 21 for "Circuit board and optical unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,001, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NIDEC Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Circuit board and optical unit" was invented by Naofumi Horio (Kyoto, Japan), Shinri Ono (Kyoto, Japan) and Tomohiro Egawa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit board includes a first wiring board, a second wiring board connected to the first wiring board, a third wiring board connected to the first wiring board, a connector, and an external terminal connector. A different-direction reference portion of the third wiring board extends in a direction different from an extending direction of a reference portion of the second wiring board between a firs...