US Patent Issued to TDK on Oct. 28 for "Position detection device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,177, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Position detection device" was invented by Tsuyoshi Umehara (Tokyo), Hayato Miyashita (Tokyo), Keisuke Uchida (Tokyo) and Hiraku Hirabayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position detection device includes a first position detector, a second position detector, and a signal generator. The first position detector includes a first magnetic field generation unit, a second magnetic field generation unit, and a first magnetic sensor. The second position detector includes a third magnetic field generation unit, a fourth magnetic field generation unit, and a second magneti...