US Patent Issued to MITUTOYO on Jan. 27 for "Scale configuration for inductive position encoder" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,339, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MITUTOYO Corp. (Kanagawa-Ken, Japan).

"Scale configuration for inductive position encoder" was invented by Ted Staton Cook (Kirkland, Wash.), James Allen Hitchman (Seattle) and Yoshiaki Kato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductive type position encoder includes a scale, a detector portion and a signal processor. The scale includes a periodic pattern of signal modulating elements (SME) arranged along a measuring axis, with a spatial wavelength W1. One type of SME in the pattern comprises similar conductive plates or loops. The detector portion comprises sensing elements and ...