ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,645, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Magnet fixing implement" was invented by Tatsuo Koike (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnet fixing implement for fixing a magnet for rotation angle detection, attached to a rotation center portion of an indicator needle of an analog meter, includes a main body, a magnet holder provided on an upper surface of the main body, and configured to hold the magnet at a rotation center of the indicator needle, a slit formed in the main body in a flat shape perpendicular to the rotation center, and configured to accommodate the rotation center portion of the indica...