US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on Feb. 17 for "Device and method for detecting wear in conveyor belt" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,614, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Device and method for detecting wear in conveyor belt" was invented by Yusuke Ishibashi (Hiratsuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embedded bodies in a conveyor belt at intervals in a longitudinal direction each include a passive IC tag 3 at one side portion of the conveyor belt and a linear shaped detection element connected to the IC tag extending toward the other side portion to form a loop circuit. An embedding depth of the loop circuit into the conveyor belt is preset in advance, a transmission radio wave is emitted from a detector tow...