ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,337, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Detection device and operation device" was invented by Satoshi Takamori (Kyoto, Japan) and Koichi Furusawa (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation device receives an operation from outside via an operation part. A detection device incorporated in the operation part detects an action of a shaft member acting in response to the operation from outside. The shaft member is inserted through a hollow spherical body having an outer shape formed in a substantially spherical shape. The spherical body includes therein a magnet (first magnet and second magnet...