US Patent Issued to FUJIKIN, NIDEC COPAL ELECTRONICS on Jan. 13 for "Pressure sensor that mitigates zero drop phenomena" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,558, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to FUJIKIN Inc. (Osaka, Japan) and NIDEC COPAL ELECTRONICS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Pressure sensor that mitigates zero drop phenomena" was invented by Atsushi Hidaka (Osaka, Japan), Takatoshi Nakatani (Osaka, Japan), Kaoru Hirata (Osaka, Japan), Kouji Nishino (Osaka, Japan), Nobukazu Ikeda (Osaka, Japan) and Masaki Fukasawa (Sano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The pressure sensor 10 comprises: a bottomed cylindrical sensor module 11 having inside a pressure receiving chamber C1 communicating with a flow path and including a diaphragm 11a in contact with the pressure receiving chamber; a pressure de...