US Patent Issued to The University of Tokyo on May 13 for "Electronic functional member and strain sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,405, issued on May 13, was assigned to The University of Tokyo (Tokyo).

"Electronic functional member and strain sensor" was invented by Takao Someya (Tokyo), Akihito Miyamoto (Tokyo), Yan Wang (Tokyo), Yorishige Matsuba (Tokyo) and Ikue Kawashima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Problem] To provide an electronic functional member having high stretch-resistance. [Solution] An electronic functional member provided with: fibers formed in web-like shape and configuring a fiber web; a coating film coating the fibers and having a Young's modulus smaller than that of the fibers; and an electrically conductive film formed on the surfa...