US Patent Issued to Proterial on Dec. 9 for "Disconnection detection method and disconnection detection device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,962, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Proterial Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Disconnection detection method and disconnection detection device" was invented by Izumi Fukasaku (Tokyo) and Ayano Kato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a disconnection of a conductor of a cable includes performing an excitation to apply a periodic vibration at an arbitrary examined portion in a longitudinal direction of the cable, measuring a time-series resistance value of the conductor by the excitation, performing a frequency analysis for the measured time-series resistance value of the conductor, extracting a resistance value variation co...