US Patent Issued to NHK SPRING on April 22 for "Heater and stage having the heater" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,731, issued on April 22, was assigned to NHK SPRING Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Heater and stage having the heater" was invented by Toshihiko Hanamachi (Yokohama, Japan), Arata Tatsumi (Yokohama, Japan), Kenji Sekiya (Yokohama, Japan), Naoya Aikawa (Yokohama, Japan) and Masaya Takanashi (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heater comprises a folded heater wire, a first insulator provided on the folded heater wire, a metal sheath in contact with a part of the first insulator, a first insulating member arranged in parallel to a part of a first end of the folded heater wire taken out from a first end of the metal sheath, a ...