US Patent Issued to FPS Food Process Solutions on Dec. 2 for "System and method for controlling conveyor system tension" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,115, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to FPS Food Process Solutions Corp. (Richmond, Canada).

"System and method for controlling conveyor system tension" was invented by Kin Hung Jeffrey Chang (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling tension in a belt of a conveyor system. The method involves: driving the belt along a path from an intake region to a discharge region using an intake motor adjacent the intake region and a discharge motor adjacent the discharge region; measuring a tension in the belt using an intake belt sensor that moves with the belt proximate the intake region to generate an intake belt ...