ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,984, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Rotary sensor and sensor substrate" was invented by Junichi Yoshizumi (Nara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of conductive parts are aligned along a rotational direction of a rotor. A different-thickness part relatively differs in thickness in one direction. In the rotor, a plurality of gaps are provided to separate the plurality of conductive parts from each other. An excitation coil is annularly arranged on a counter surface of a substrate. A detection coil is disposed inside the excitation coil on the counter...