ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,673, issued on July 15, was assigned to Edwards Japan Ltd. (Yachiyo, Japan).
"Vacuum pump and control device" was invented by Ryutaro Honma (Yachiyo, Japan), Kazuya Kasahara (Yachiyo, Japan) and Hideo Fukami (Yachiyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum pump that allows for the identification of the noise immunities or the like of a master circuit and one or more slave circuits for controlling an operation of at least one portion included in the vacuum pump, and a controller used for such a vacuum pump are proposed. The present disclosure includes a control means 200 configured to control an operation of at least one portio...