US Patent Issued to NITTO KOGYO on Nov. 3 for "Electrical discharge detection system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,441, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NITTO KOGYO Corp. (Nagakute, Japan).

"Electrical discharge detection system" was invented by Atsushi Miyamoto (Nagakute, Japan), Tomoyasu Sakai (Nagakute, Japan) and Hiyori Ajioka (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A discharge detection system includes a main breaker; a number of branch breakers; a number of discharge detection units; and at least one current limiting resistor. Each branch breaker is configured to interrupt a circuit based on a difference in a current value between a current I1 flowing in a first electrode and a current I2 flowing in a second electrode. Each discharg...