US Patent Issued to KOA on Nov. 3 for "Load sensor element" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,209, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to KOA Corp. (Ina, Japan).

"Load sensor element" was invented by Atsushi Karasawa (Nagano, Japan), Natsumi Aoki (Nagano, Japan) and Masaya Tsuno (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load sensor element includes a substrate and an inorganic layer having a pressure receiving surface configured to receive a load, the inorganic layer being provided so as to cover a part of a front surface that is a first surface of the substrate. The load sensor element includes a thin-film resistance body formed by a resistance body whose resistance value is changed in response to the load received by the in...