US Patent Issued to NIDEC POWERTRAIN SYSTEMS on Aug. 4 for "Actuator device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,776, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NIDEC POWERTRAIN SYSTEMS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Actuator device" was invented by Hiroshi Shirai (Zama, Japan) and Shun Kato (Zama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator device includes a drive assembly that is movable in a first direction, a sensor magnet that extends in the first direction that is a magnetization direction, the sensor magnet being fixed to the drive assembly, and a magnetic sensor that opposes the sensor magnet in a second direction intersecting the first direction to detect a magnetic flux of the sensor magnet. As viewed from the second direction, a width of the s...