US Patent Issued to MINEBEA MITSUMI on Sept. 8 for "Shaft support structure, magnetism detection device, and absolute encoder" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,983, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI INC. (Nagano, Japan).

"Shaft support structure, magnetism detection device, and absolute encoder" was invented by Takeshi Sakieda (Kitasaku-gun, Japan), Katsunori Saito (Kitasaku-gun, Japan), Norikazu Sato (Kitasaku-gun, Japan) and Yasuo Osada (Kitasaku-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a shaft support structure capable of improving mounting accuracy of a shaft to be press-fitted. The shaft support structure includes a main shaft adapter and a main shaft as a supporting member including a press-fitting portion for press-fitting the main shaft adapter from one...