US Patent Issued to SMC on March 3 for "Position detecting switch, actuator, and position detecting method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,081, issued on March 3, was assigned to SMC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Position detecting switch, actuator, and position detecting method" was invented by Yusuke Kanda (Tsukubamirai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position detecting switch detects the position of a movable body that is capable of moving in a predetermined direction, based on a magnet attached to the movable body. The position detecting switch is equipped with a magnetic sensor that detects the magnetism of the magnet, and outputs a detected value in accordance with the magnetism, a determination unit that determines whether or not the detected value lies within a predet...