ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,318, issued on Oct. 21, 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), Akitoshi Fujimori (Koto-ku, Japan), Takashi Onimoto (Koto-ku, Japan) and Yiming Jin (Koto-ku, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The torque measuring device includes: a casing made of a magnetic metal; a rotating shaft rotatably arranged inside the casing and having a magnetostrictive effect section whose magnetic permeability changes according to torque to be transmitted; an...