US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on Oct. 6 for "Sensor device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,092, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Sensor device" was invented by Hideaki Sugibayashi (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor device includes an electrically conductive base substrate defining a first electrode kept at a reference potential, a membrane defining a second electrode that changes a position thereof in response to a change of surrounding pressure and faces the base substrate, a casing that is kept at the reference potential and is outside the membrane, a capacitance detection circuit to amplify a signal from the membrane and detect an electrostatic capac...