US Patent Issued to KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY on June 16 for "Winch monitoring method, winch monitoring device, and crane" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,000, issued on June 16, was assigned to KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Winch monitoring method, winch monitoring device, and crane" was invented by Teppei Maedo (Hyogo, Japan), Hiroki Nakayama (Hyogo, Japan), Kazufumi Kudara (Hyogo, Japan) and Yohei Ogawa (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for judging a winding disorder of a rope onto a drum of a winch includes acquiring a captured image by a camera oriented to the drum, performing, on the basis of the captured image, a judgment on whether the winding disorder of the rope is present or absent and a determination of a disorder degree in...