ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,553, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Toyoda Gosei Co. Ltd. (Kiyosu, Japan).
"Capacitive pressure-sensitive sensor" was invented by Yoshinao Tajima (Kiyosu, Japan), Takahisa Kohama (Kiyosu, Japan) and Eisuke Sumida (Kiyosu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to reduce the hysteresis loss ratio of a capacitive pressure-sensitive sensor by forming elastic layers from two types of elastic materials (i.e., a certain elastic material and an additional specific elastic material) when the hysteresis loss ratio is high in the capacitive pressure-sensitive sensor including the elastic layers formed on...