US Patent Issued to DENSO on April 21 for "Torque detection device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,528, issued on April 21, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Torque detection device" was invented by Toshiro Suzuki (Kariya-city, Japan), Michihiro Makita (Kariya-city, Japan), Koichiro Matsumoto (Kariya-city, Japan), Kazuhiro Yoshino (Kariya-city, Japan), Norihisa Koide (Kariya-city, Japan) and Nagisa Onoda (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A torque detection device includes a first yoke and a first magnetic guide member. A first opposing portion of the first magnetic guide member overlaps with a first-yoke ring of the first yoke when the first-yoke ring is projected onto the first opposing portion ...