ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,059, issued on May 20, was assigned to NSK LTD. (Tokyo) and PROTERIAL LTD. (Tokyo).
"Torque measuring device" was invented by Masahiro Kobayashi (Fukuroi, Japan), Kota Fukuda (Fukuroi, Japan), Hisayoshi Fukui (Fukuroi, Japan), Takahiro Odera (Fukuroi, Japan), Teruyuki Nakamura (Koto-ku, Japan), Naoki Futakuchi (Koto-ku, Japan) and Ken Okuyama (Koto-ku, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A torque measuring device includes: a coil unit having a detection coil configured to change a voltage in response to a change in magnetic permeability of a magnetostrictive effect section of a rotating shaft; a back yoke arranged coaxially around t...