US Patent Issued to SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY on May 19 for "Combined six-dimensional force sensor based on thin-film sputtering technology" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,503, issued on May 19, was assigned to SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY (Jiangsu, China).

"Combined six-dimensional force sensor based on thin-film sputtering technology" was invented by Aiguo Song (Jiangsu, China), Yuhan Chen (Jiangsu, China), Jingjing Xu (Jiangsu, China), Baoguo Xu (Jiangsu, China) and Huijun Li (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combined six-dimensional force sensor based on thin-film sputtering technology includes a force transmission table, a cross beam, a base, a top cover, a bottom cover and strain gauges. Strain gauges are sputtered on the elastomer structure to form six sets of Wheatstone bridges. The measu...