ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,952, issued on April 22, was assigned to NSK LTD. (Tokyo) and PROTERIAL LTD. (Tokyo).
"Torque measuring device and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Masahiro Kobayashi (Fukuroi, Japan), Kota Fukuda (Fukuroi, Japan), Hisayoshi Fukui (Fukuroi, Japan), Takahiro Odera (Fukuroi, Japan), Haruhiko Tanno (Fukuroi, Japan), Yoshinori Kubo (Tokyo), Naoki Futakuchi (Tokyo), Ken Okuyama (Tokyo) and Teruyuki Nakamura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The manufacturing method includes: performing testing of samples having the same configuration as the torque measuring device to be manufactured to find a coil balance Cb that is a rati...