ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,270, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NITTO KOGYO Corp. (Nagakute, Japan).
"Discharge detection device" was invented by Atsushi Miyamoto (Nagakute, Japan), Tomonori Kakehi (Nagakute, Japan), Yusuke Aita (Nagakute, Japan), Koichiro Kato (Nagakute, Japan), Tomoyasu Sakai (Nagakute, Japan), Hiyori Ajioka (Nagakute, Japan) and Hiroyasu Ito (Nagakute, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a discharge detector for detecting discharge occurred in a circuit with an electrically connected load based on a noise in a high frequency band superimposed on an alternating current power source supplied to the circuit. The discharge detecto...