ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,666, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to KYB Corp. (Tokyo).
"Fluid state detection sensor" was invented by Takahiro Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan), Yukinori Kameda (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuki Nagai (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryohei Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid state detection sensor accurately detects a fluid state by suppressing the deterioration of a conductivity measurement accuracy due to its characteristics. The sensor includes an electrode section configured by a pair of electrodes arranged opposite each other, a conductivity acquisition unit detecting a resistance value from an inter-electrode voltage valu...