G01L 5/165
Using variations in capacitance
Official title: using variations in capacitance
G01L5/165 (Using variations in capacitance) appears on 191 US grants and 210 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Multi-dimensional capacitive transducer146US 5,869,751 AHysitron, Inc. · 1999
- Force sensor113US 6,530,283 B2Nitta Corporation · 2003
- Detector for a physical quantity having a self-testing function91US 5,492,020 A1996
- Multi-dimensional and acceleration detector84US 5,406,848 A1995
- Multi-dimensional force detector84US 5,421,213 A1995