US Patent Issued to MINEBEA MITSUMI on July 14 for "Rotation detection device, rotation detection method, and rotation detection program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,805, issued on July 14, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc. (Nagano, Japan).

"Rotation detection device, rotation detection method, and rotation detection program" was invented by Jumpei Fujii (Nagano, Japan) and Juichi Uno (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotation detection device includes: a comparator configured to generate a digital signal that indicates a magnitude relationship between a voltage, which is output from a potentiometer in accordance with an amount of rotation of a rotating body, and a threshold voltage; and a controller configured to detect a number of complete turns of the rotating body based on tr...