ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,018, issued on May 12, was assigned to Proterial Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Load sensor" was invented by Yuta Sugiyama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load sensor is provided with a pressure-receiving core made of a magnetostrictive material on which a load to be detected acts, a non-pressure-receiving core made of a magnetic material concentrically arranged with the pressure-receiving core and on which the load to be detected does not act, a detection coil that generates a magnetic flux that passes through the pressure-receiving core by energizing, and a reference coil that, when energized, generates a magnetic flux that does not pass th...