US 12,066,461 B2
Sensor device, water amount measurement device, water amount measurement method, information processing device, and information processing method
Atsushi Yamada, Kanagawa (JP); Kyohei Yoshimitsu, Tokyo (JP); Hiroyuki Mita, Saitama (JP); Sachio Iida, Kanagawa (JP); Seiji Kobayashi, Kanagawa (JP); and Toshiyuki Hiroi, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP); and Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed by SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP); and SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on Nov. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/517,366.
Application 17/517,366 is a continuation of application No. 16/616,608, granted, now 11,428,714, previously published as PCT/JP2018/016007, filed on Apr. 18, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2017-109917 (JP), filed on Jun. 2, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0057435 A1, Feb. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. G01R 1/073 (2006.01); G01N 22/04 (2006.01); G01R 1/04 (2006.01); G01R 1/067 (2006.01); G01R 27/02 (2006.01); G01R 27/32 (2006.01)
CPC G01R 1/07307 (2013.01) [G01N 22/04 (2013.01); G01R 1/06772 (2013.01)] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A moisture sensing device, comprising:
a first arm;
a second arm;
a coupling portion disposed between the first arm and the second arm, wherein the coupling portion maintains a distance between the first arm and the second arm;
first wiring layers that are provided in the first arm, wherein the first wiring layers include a first stripline or a first microstripline including a first surface layer and a first internal layer;
second wiring layers that are provided in the second arm, wherein the second wiring layers include a second stripline or a second microstripline including a second surface layer and a second internal layer;
a first electromagnetic wave absorption layer covering a part of the first wiring layers;
a second electromagnetic wave absorption layer covering a part of the second wiring layers;
a transmitting antenna section including a part of the first wiring layers;
a reception antenna section including a part of the second wiring layers;
a measurement unit, wherein the measurement unit generates a measurement signal regarding characteristics of a propagation of an electromagnetic wave between the transmitting antenna section and the reception antenna section,
wherein the transmitting antenna section and the reception antenna section face each other; and
a temperature detector that is provided in at least one of the first arm, the second arm or the coupling portion, and is capable of detecting a temperature of a medium.