US Patent Issued to NAKANISHI METAL WORKS on Nov. 11 for "Magnetic encoder and method of manufacturing magnetic encoder" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,505, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NAKANISHI METAL WORKS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Magnetic encoder and method of manufacturing magnetic encoder" was invented by Yusuke Iizawa (Osaka, Japan) and Yoshihiro Ito (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cylindrical portion of an annular support member has a small-diameter portion press-fitted to an inner ring of a bearing, and a large-diameter portion formed by enlarging a part of the cylindrical portion, which is closer to an inboard side than the small-diameter portion. An annular magnet member has an inner-diameter side recessed portion formed by depressing, toward an outbo...