ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,809, issued on March 24, was assigned to SENSODRIVE GMBH (Wessling, Germany).
"Torque sensor having a radially elastic material section" was invented by Michael Grandl (Munich), Christian Rust (Germering, Germany) and Mathias Sattler (Stamberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a torque sensor (10) with a main body (12) that extends in an axial and circumferential direction, and which extends in a radial direction of the main body from an annular inner flange (18) with first force introduction points (16) via a mechanically weakened sensor portion (20), which is provided with measuring sensors that gene...