ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,008, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NHK SPRING Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Bending structure and conductive device" was invented by Takafumi Hirata (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuki Hotoda (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bending structure includes a bending part, which has an inner coil part and an outer coil part that are elastically bendable and stretchable, and in which a corresponding winding section of the inner coil part is fit in a space between adjacent winding sections of the outer coil part. At least one of the inner coil part and the outer coil part is conductive and forms a conductive path."
The patent wa...