ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,796, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"Monitoring a gear wear in an electric power train" was invented by Teemu Tanila (Helsinki), Olli Alkkiomaki (Helsinki) and Joni Siimesjarvi (Laihia, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric power train includes an electric drive, an electric motor driven by the electric drive, and a meshing pair of a drive gear and a driven gear. The drive gear is coupled to the electric motor and the driven gear is coupled to a mechanical load. The backlash of the meshing pair of the drive gear and the driven gear is measured and estimated based on a time until a...