US Patent Issued to SEMITEC on July 15 for "Contact force sensor and device provided with contact force sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,987, issued on July 15, was assigned to SEMITEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Contact force sensor and device provided with contact force sensor" was invented by Yutaro Tabata (Tokyo), Manabu Orito (Tokyo) and Tadashi Matsudate (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are: a contact force sensor which has high accuracy and sensitivity and is capable of ensuring strength; and a device provided with the contact force sensor. The present invention comprises: a sensor body (2) manufactured by processing a semiconductor material, wherein the sensor body (2) is provided with: a ring-shaped portion (21); a central portion (22) formed substantially ...