US Patent Issued to TDK on Nov. 25 for "Position detection device, lens module, imaging apparatus, and angle sensor apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,803, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Position detection device, lens module, imaging apparatus, and angle sensor apparatus" was invented by Kentaro Harada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position detection device includes: a first magnetic field generator generating a first magnetic field; a driver opposed to the first magnetic field generator in a first-axis direction; and a magnetic field sensor detecting the first magnetic field. The driver causes the first magnetic field generator to move in a second-axis direction parallel to a first plane orthogonal to the first-axis direction. The first magnetic ...