ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,202, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Contact detection apparatus for vehicle" was invented by Keita Inamura (Tokyo), Hayato Aiuchi (Tokyo), Yohei Tsukui (Tokyo), Shiaki Higa (Tokyo) and Haruhiko Nagahashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact detection apparatus includes a bumper beam, an absorber, a contact detection sensor, a tube holder, and a cover. The absorber is disposed in front of and adjacent to the bumper beam. The contact detection sensor includes a pressure tube and outputs a signal in accordance with a change in pressure of the pressure tube. The tube holder is a part of a front end o...