ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,022, issued on May 20, was assigned to DMG MORI Co. LTD. (Nara, Japan).
"Touching detection device" was invented by Masahide Kakutani (Nara, Japan) and Akio Ishii (Nara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touching detection device (1) includes: a probe (10) having a touched part (11) with a touch surface (11a, 11b) to be touched by an object to be detected, a support part (13) supporting the touched part (11), and a sensed part (19); a sensor (S) sensing the sensed part (19); and a body (2) holding the probe (10) and the sensor (S). The support part (13) is held by the body (2) to be swingable in a direction in which the object t...