US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on April 29 for "Wire rope inspection device and wire rope inspection system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,309, issued on April 29, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Wire rope inspection device and wire rope inspection system" was invented by Yoshio Takami (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wire rope inspection device (100) is provided with a first detection coil (30) and a second detection coil (40), and a processing unit (61). The second detection coil is arranged to be inclined to the first detection coil when viewed from a direction (X-direction) perpendicular to a first direction (Z-direction) along which the first detection coil moves relative to the wire rope (W). The processing unit identifies an abnormali...