ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,419, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Shibaura Machine Co. Ltd. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY (Kanazawa, Japan).
"Abnormality detection device for extrusion molding machine" was invented by Masatoshi Ohara (Numazu, Japan), Kentaro Taki (Kanazawa, Japan) and Tsukasa Kida (Kanazawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal acquisition unit of an abnormality detection device for a twin-screw extrusion molding machine, when the twin-screw extrusion molding machine that melts and kneads a fed resin raw material is in operation, acquires an AE output of an AE sensor installed on a surface ...