ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,598, issued on May 27.
"Monitoring liner wear in industrial mills" was invented by Zhigang Sun (Greenfield Park, Canada), Kuo-Ting Wu (Brossard, Canada), Cheng Hu (Richmond, Canada) and Silvio Elton Kruger (Brossard, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring both liner wear and charge impact in an industrial mill uses a sensor mounted on an elongated element deployed through a shell into a liner of the mill. The elongated element wears at a same rate as the liner under conditions within the shell. Liner wear is related to a reduction in length of the elongated element as measured by travel time of an ultrasound wav...