US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 21 for "Inspection device and inspection method for load distribution sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,446, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Inspection device and inspection method for load distribution sensor" was invented by Junichi Nagasue (Nagakute, Japan) and Mitsugu Kikuchi (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection device according to an embodiment is for a load distribution sensor including driving-side loop electrodes disposed parallel to one another in a first surface, detection-side loop electrodes disposed parallel to one another in a direction orthogonal to the driving-side loop electrodes in a second surface lying parallel to the first surface, and a conductive sh...