US Patent Issued to Murata Machinery on Jan. 13 for "Non-contact power supply system and transport system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,787, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Non-contact power supply system and transport system" was invented by Hiroyasu Tomita (Inuyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a non-contact power supply system, each of a plurality of non-contact power supply devices includes a filter circuit connected to an inverter to convert power supplied from a power source into AC power and including a reactor and capacitors. The non-contact power supply system includes an electrostatic coupler to electrostatically couple one non-contact power supply device to another non-contact power supply device. The el...