US Patent Issued to NHK SPRING on Aug. 11 for "Temperature measuring unit, disk drive suspension manufacturing apparatus, and disk drive suspension manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,115, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NHK SPRING Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Temperature measuring unit, disk drive suspension manufacturing apparatus, and disk drive suspension manufacturing method" was invented by Takeshi Shimoda (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature measuring unit includes a base including a first face, a second face on a side opposite to the first face, and a first opening portion penetrating the first face and the second face, a support member including a body portion provided on the second face side to overlap with the first opening portion, and a plurality of extending portions exten...