ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,136, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Force sensor and robot equipped with force sensor" was invented by Chihiro Nagura (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A force sensor that quantitatively detects an external force. The force sensor comprises a base unit, a displacement unit displacing by an external force, a first displacement sensor pair including two sets of sensors detecting a relative displacement between the base unit and the displacement unit in a first direction, and a second displacement sensor pair including two sets of sensors detecting a relative displacement between the base unit and th...