Kumar K R Hemant

Title: Kumar K R Hemant: Inventor of a Ring-Network Fault Detection System

Introduction

Kumar K R Hemant is an inventor associated with Bengaluru, India. His recorded patent concerns detecting and bypassing faults in trunk cables within ring communications networks. He is associated with The Whitaker Corporation.

Latest Patents

The available information identifies one patent for Hemant: Trunk Cable Fault Detection and Reconfiguration Arrangement in a Ring. The invention describes a ring communications network made up of line concentrators, each with ring-in and ring-out ports and multiple station ports. It detects a trunk-cable fault by injecting a phantom DC voltage at a concentrator’s ring-out port and checking for the resulting current at that port and at the next concentrator’s ring-in port. When a fault is detected, the arrangement reconfigures the ring to bypass the affected cable.

Career Highlights

Hemant’s documented patent work addresses network reliability by combining fault detection with automatic reconfiguration. The record lists 1 patent and associates him with The Whitaker Corporation.

Collaborations

The supplied information names Thomas A. Donnelly and K. C. Babu as Hemant’s coworkers. It does not specify their roles in the patent or describe the nature of their collaboration.

Conclusion

Kumar K R Hemant’s recorded invention focuses on identifying trunk-cable faults and maintaining ring-network operation by routing around the affected connection.