ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,793, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NSK LTD. (Tokyo) and PROTERIAL LTD. (Tokyo).
"Torque measuring device" was invented by Masahiro Kobayashi (Fukuroi, Japan), Kota Fukuda (Fukuroi, Japan), Takahiro Odera (Fukuroi, Japan) and Naoki Futakuchi (Koto-ku, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A torque measuring device includes a bridge circuit in which four detection coils arranged around a magnetostrictive effect section of a rotating shaft are arranged on four sides; and the bridge circuit includes a resistance element connected to at least one of the four sides for adjusting a resistance value of the side."
The patent was filed on...