ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,003, issued on April 14, was assigned to Ten Sheeg Machinery Co. Ltd. (Tainan City, Taiwan).
"Knife detecting and sharpening system" was invented by Jason Yeh (Tainan City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A knife detecting and sharpening system can be installed in a machine base of a splitting machine and adjacent to a band knife, which is an annular loop and is driven by two knife-driving wheels, and adjacent to a wheel shaft of one of the two knife-driving wheels. The system is controlled by a computer of the splitting machine and comprises a resistance detector, connected to the wheel shaft and electrically connected to the...