US Patent Issued to Ishida on March 18 for "Combination weighing device with water intrusion detection" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,485, issued on March 18, was assigned to Ishida Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Combination weighing device with water intrusion detection" was invented by Shigeki Shima (Ritto, Japan), Nobuki Hashiguchi (Ritto, Japan), Mitsuki Nakai (Ritto, Japan), Takuma Furukawa (Ritto, Japan), Kazuteru Oda (Ritto, Japan), Toshiharu Kageyama (Ritto, Japan) and Kazuhisa Chimura (Ritto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combination weighing device includes: an electroconductive plate opposed, with an interval, to an electroconductive part enabling detection of water intrusion inside the combination weighing device; a voltage wire for application of ...