US Patent Issued to Canon on July 1 for "Power generation elementhaving magnetostrictive portion with magnetic material and magnet" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,159, issued on July 1, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Power generation elementhaving magnetostrictive portion with magnetic material and magnet" was invented by Yuichiro Miyauchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power generation element includes a magnetostrictive material having a fixed end in a longitudinal direction, and generates power when force is applied to the magnetostrictive material. The power generation element includes a magnetostrictive portion containing the magnetostrictive material, a magnetic portion containing a magnetic material and having surfaces at least partially fixed to the magnetostric...