ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,347, issued on July 28, was assigned to Proterial Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Disconnection detection device" was invented by Katsutoshi Nakatani (Tokyo), Izumi Fukasaku (Tokyo) and Takahiro Sugiyama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disconnection detection device that detects strand disconnection in a plurality of insulated wires each of which includes a conductor including a plurality of strands is provided with a branch portion including a common conducting path and a plurality of branched conducting paths branching out from an end portion of the common conducting path, each of the branched conducting paths being electrically connected, ...