News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:““Field of the Invention“The present invention relates to a load detecting device which detects a load, based on change incapacitance.“Description of Related Art“Load sensors are widely used in the fields of industrial apparatuses, robots, v ehicles, and the like.In recent years, in accordance with advancement of contro l technologies by computers and improvementof design, development of electronic apparatuses that use a variety of free-form surfaces such as those inhuman-for m robots and interior equipment of automobiles is in progress. In association th erewith, it isrequired to mount a high performance load sensor to each free-for m surface.