US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Oct. 20 for "Absolute encoder and electric motor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,211, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Absolute encoder and electric motor" was invented by Shigeru Takushima (Tokyo), Takeshi Musha (Tokyo), Akihiko Higuchi (Tokyo), Toshio Mekata (Tokyo), Takuya Noguchi (Tokyo), Hitoshi Hasegawa (Tokyo) and Yuji Kubo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An absolute encoder includes: a scale including an optical pattern that includes code patterns for a plurality of cycles; an illumination unit that outputs light for illuminating the scale; a light detection unit that detects light from the scale; a section determination unit that determines, for a region of the...