US Patent Issued to NIPPON STEEL Chemical & Material on Dec. 30 for "Power-generating magnetostrictive element and magnetostrictive power generation device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,771, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Chemical & Material Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Power-generating magnetostrictive element and magnetostrictive power generation device" was invented by Hiroaki Sakamoto (Tokyo), Masao Tanabe (Tokyo) and Shinichi Terashima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The task of the present invention is to provide a magnetostrictive power generation device that is low cost and excellent in durability and can achieve a power generation amount equal to or exceeding those of conventional magnetostrictive power generation devices. The present invention provides a power-generating magnetostrictive eleme...