ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,321, issued on May 26, was assigned to KOA Corp. (Nagano, Japan).
"Sensor element" was invented by Satoshi Kanegae (Nagano, Japan), Katsuya Miura (Nagano, Japan) and Isao Nagasaka (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a sensor element capable of obtaining a wide sensing region, suppressing unevenness of a temperature distribution in the sensing region, and obtaining substantially constant sensor sensitivity. A sensor element according to the present invention includes: a base; a temperature-sensitive film formed on an entire surface of the base and having an electric resistance value that changes due to a change in...