ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,740, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to KOA Corp. (Nagano, Japan).
"Alloy for resistor and use of resistor alloy in resistor" was invented by Naoki Kanauchi (Nagano, Japan), Yoshitaka Kumeda (Nagano, Japan) and Tadahiko Yoshioka (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a copper-manganese-nickel based alloy having characteristics (in particular, specific resistance) close to those of a nickel-chromium based alloy. It is also an objective to provide an alloy having high processability compared to a nickel-chromium based alloy. An alloy for a resistive body includes copper, manganese, and nickel, wherein the manganese i...