US Patent Issued to ORIENTAL MOTOR on Sept. 1 for "Electricity generating sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,090, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ORIENTAL MOTOR Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Electricity generating sensor" was invented by Akihiko Houda (Tsukuba, Japan), Masayuki Someya (Tsukuba, Japan) and Sakao Ozeki (Kakegawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power generation sensor includes a magnetic wire configured to exhibit a large Barkhausen effect, a coil wound around the magnetic wire, and a pair of magnetic flux conducting pieces that include a pair of magnetically-soft components respectively magnetically coupled to the opposite end portions of the magnetic wire. The pair of magnetic flux conducting pieces include a pair of axis-or...