US Patent Issued to TOYOTA BOSHOKU on May 26 for "Piezoelectric sensor and seat" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,974, issued on May 26, was assigned to TOYOTA BOSHOKU K.K. (Aichi, Japan).

"Piezoelectric sensor and seat" was invented by Wataru Hayashi (Aichi, Japan), Nobuhiro Moriyama (Tokyo) and Tomoyuki Ogawa (Niigata, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piezoelectric sensor includes: a piezoelectric element which is long and which includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a piezoelectric body interposed between the first and second electrodes; and a laminate film which is long and which surrounds the piezoelectric element. The laminate film includes a wide portion whose length along a shorter side direction of the laminate film is...