US Patent Issued to Murata Machinery, Shima Seiki on Oct. 7 for "Contact pressure sensor, knit product having same, and method of manufacturing contact pressure sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,614, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan) and Shima Seiki Mfg. Ltd. (Wakayama, Japan).

"Contact pressure sensor, knit product having same, and method of manufacturing contact pressure sensor" was invented by Tetsuya Namikawa (Kyoto, Japan), Shuichi Fukuhara (Kyoto, Japan), Tatsuya Kosui (Wakayama, Japan) and Takafumi Kamei (Wakayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact pressure sensor detects a pressing force applied to a pressed body by a pressing body through a sensor portion disposed between the pressing body and the pressed body, wherein the sensor portion is formed of a knitting yarn i...