US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Sept. 30 for "Load sensor for detecting externally applied load based on capacitance variation" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,388, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Load sensor for detecting externally applied load based on capacitance variation" was invented by Yuta Moriura (Osaka, Japan), Susumu Uragami (Osaka, Japan), Takashi Matsumoto (Osaka, Japan), Yodai Matsumura (Osaka, Japan), Hiroyuki Furuya (Osaka, Japan) and Hitoshi Ishimoto (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load sensor includes: a first base member and a second base member disposed so as to face each other; an electrically-conductive elastic body disposed on an opposing face of the first base member; a wire mem...