US Patent Issued to MINEBEA MITSUMI on May 20 for "Strain gauge including a barrier layer over a resistance body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,053, issued on May 20, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc. (Nagano, Japan).

"Strain gauge including a barrier layer over a resistance body" was invented by Tatsuya Takimoto (Nagano, Japan), Shintaro Takata (Nagano, Japan), Shinya Toda (Nagano, Japan), Toshiaki Asakawa (Nagano, Japan) and Shigeyuki Adachi (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A strain gauge includes a flexible substrate; a resistor made from a film containing Cr, CrN, and Cr2N, on one surface of the substrate; and a resin barrier layer covering the resistor, and, in this strain gauge, in the barrier layer, a ratio of a moisture permeability (g/m2/24h) to a th...