US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on July 22 for "Temperature detection device and method for conveyor belt" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,547, issued on July 22, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Temperature detection device and method for conveyor belt" was invented by Yusuke Ishibashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature detection device and method that can simply and accurately detect the presence or absence of abnormal heating of a conveyor belt. Correlation data between an electrical resistance value of a passive IC tag embedded in a conveyor belt and a temperature of the IC tag when it is activated is grasped in advance when the tag receives a transmitted radio wave from a non-contact detector. Data of electrical resi...