ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,007, issued on July 15, was assigned to NTN Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Apparatus for collecting data on a mechancial apparatus" was invented by Shohei Hashizume (Kuwana, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data collection apparatus includes an input portion to which a result of detection (heat flux) by a heat flux sensor provided in a beating is provided and a controller configured to collect the result of detection by the sensor provided to the input portion in prescribed sampling cycles for storage. When magnitude of the heat flux is smaller than a switching threshold value, the controller sets the sampling cycle to a first cycle, a...