ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,270, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Device and method for detecting longitudinal tear in conveyor belt" was invented by Yusuke Ishibashi (Hiratsuka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embedded bodies embedded in a conveyor belt at intervals in a longitudinal direction each include a passive IC tag 3 disposed at one side portion in a width direction of the conveyor belt and a linear shaped detection element connected to the IC tag and extending from the one side portion to the other side portion to form a loop circuit. A transmission radio wave is emitted from a detector toward ...