US Patent Issued to MINEBEA MITSUMI on Jan. 27 for "Absolute encoder, angle error correction device in absolute encoder, and method for correcting angle error in absolute encoder" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,342, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc. (Nagano, Japan).

"Absolute encoder, angle error correction device in absolute encoder, and method for correcting angle error in absolute encoder" was invented by Takanori Tatei (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To suppress a maximum value of an angle deviation regardless of the position of a rotating body at the time of start-up. An absolute encoder includes a sensor configured to generate a signal indicating a value of a predetermined physical quantity varying depending on a rotation of a rotating body, a computer configured to generate angle information indica...