US Patent Issued to MINEBEA MITSUMI on Aug. 4 for "Strain gauge" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,015, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc. (Nagano, Japan).

"Strain gauge" was invented by Yosuke Ogasa (Nagano, Japan), Toshiaki Asakawa (Nagano, Japan), Atsushi Kitamura (Nagano, Japan) and Shigeyuki Adachi (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present disclosure, a strain gauge includes: a flexible substrate; and a resistor formed of a film containing Cr, CrN, and Cr2N, on the substrate, and, in this strain gauge, the strain gauge is attached to a measurement object such that a grid direction of the resistor is orthogonal to a strain direction of the measurement object."

The patent was fil...