US Patent Issued to NIDEC INSTRUMENTS on Jan. 13 for "Fault detection device for encoder wiring" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,502, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NIDEC INSTRUMENTS Corp. (Nagano, Japan).

"Fault detection device for encoder wiring" was invented by Kokyu Mukai (Nagano, Japan) and Hajime Takagi (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fault detection device is provided which detects a fault having occurred in encoder wiring in a system including a controlled apparatus having an encoder and a controller controlling the controlled apparatus and, in the system, the encoder and the controller are connected with each other through the encoder wiring. In a case that a signal which is transmitted from the encoder to the controller is define...