US Patent Issued to YAMADA GIKEN on May 12 for "Piling snow depth measurement system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,943, issued on May 12, was assigned to YAMADA GIKEN Co. LTD. (Fukui City, Japan).

"Piling snow depth measurement system" was invented by Tadayuki Yamada (Fukui City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each of heat quantity measurement apparatuses 20a to 20c includes a snow receiving plate 22 configured that falling snow piles up thereon, a heater device 25 configured to heat the snow receiving plate until a temperature of the snow receiving plate 22 becomes predetermined target temperature exceeding 0 degrees Celsius, and a heat flux density measurement apparatus (24a to 24d) configured to measure heat flux density transmitted from ...