ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,749, issued on June 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).
"Power transmitting coil unit" was invented by Osamu Yamashita (Toyota, Japan), Naoki Iwata (Kasugai, Japan), Shinjiro Saigusa (Toyota, Japan), Sungmin Cho (Susono, Japan), Katsuya Kobayashi (Okazaki, Japan) and Toshiya Hashimoto (Miyoshi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transmitting coil unit includes a board on which a coil comprised of a conductor pattern is formed and to a back surface side of which capacitors are mounted, a core arranged at a back surface side of the board and formed with a hole at a position facing the capacitors, a bot...