US Patent Issued to OMRON on Oct. 28 for "Tactile sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,204, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Tactile sensor" was invented by Misato Nabeto (Kyoto, Japan), Hiroshi Kitajima (Kyoto, Japan), Hiroki Koga (Kyoto, Japan) and Sayaka Doi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tactile sensor has an electrostatic capacitance-type sensor portion having a layered structure in which a first electrode layer, an elastic layer, and a second electrode layer are layered. The first electrode layer has plural first electrodes, and the second electrode layer is configured by one or plural second electrodes in a single layer. Two or more of the plural first electrodes ar...