US Patent Issued to NIDEC DRIVE TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 17 for "Machine component, power transmission device, and robot" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,507, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NIDEC DRIVE TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Machine component, power transmission device, and robot" was invented by Daisuke Takagi (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine component includes a base portion and strain gauges. The base portion extends in a direction intersecting a central axis. The strain gauges are provided on the base portion and arrayed in a circumferential direction about the central axis. Gap regions are provided between adjacent strain gauges in the circumferential direction. The gap regions include gap regions arranged at angular intervals of approxim...