US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Aug. 12 for "Position detection system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,765, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Position detection system" was invented by Kazuhiro Onaka (Hyogo, Japan), Noritaka Ichinomiya (Nara, Japan), Naoki Kohara (Osaka, Japan) and Takafumi Tsushima (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position detection system includes a magnetic pole block and a magnetic sensor. The magnetic pole block includes a plurality of magnetic poles arranged in a first direction. The plurality of magnetic poles are arranged such that N poles and S poles are alternately arranged as the plurality of magnetic poles in the first dire...