US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on Dec. 9 for "Spinning and sliding detection device and spinning and sliding detection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,769, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Spinning and sliding detection device and spinning and sliding detection method" was invented by Akira Nakanishi (Tokyo), Satoru Matsuoka (Tokyo), Koji Shiratsuchi (Tokyo), Masashi Asuka (Tokyo) and Makoto Tokumaru (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spinning and sliding detection device in a train includes: a change detection unit that periodically acquires a first detected value from a speed sensor, calculates a first change amount, using the first detected values, periodically acquires a second detected value from an acceleration sensor, calculates a sec...