US Patent Issued to THK on Nov. 3 for "Contact sensor module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,214, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to THK Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Contact sensor module" was invented by Jun Kawasaki (Tokyo), Masaki Shibuya (Tokyo) and Norimasa Okada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact sensor module includes a base unit with columnar shape, a plurality of pressure-sensitive sensors mounted on a tip end of the base unit, a flexible cover attached to the base unit so as to cover the tip end of the base unit, and a hard intermediate member disposed between the tip end of the base unit and the cover. The pressure-sensitive sensors are mounted on a surface of the base unit in a state inclined so as to approach a...