US Patent Issued to MINEBEA MITSUMI on Sept. 1 for "Absolute encoder" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,896, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI INC. (Nagano, Japan).

"Absolute encoder" was invented by Katsunori Saito (Nagano, Japan), Hiroki Negishi (Nagano, Japan) and Takeshi Sakieda (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To improve the detection accuracy of a rotation angle of a rotation shaft caused by the magnetic flux distribution of a magnet. In an absolute encoder, a support shaft has one end fixed to a gear base part as a substrate, and includes a flange part at the other end. A first bearing and a second bearing as at least one bearing include inner rings fixed to the support shaft. The first bearing and ...