ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,189, issued on June 24, 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, a cover, and first and second protrusions. A pressure tube is held in a groove of the tube holder. The cover is attached to a front end of the tube holder. A pressing member of the cover is disposed inside an opening groove of the groove and in front of the pres...