ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,331, issued on June 3, was assigned to NTN Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Condition monitoring system" was invented by Hitoshi Saito (Kuwana, Japan) and Takashi Haseba (Kuwana, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A condition monitoring system includes a monitoring terminal, an acceleration sensor, and a data processor. The data processor calculates a diagnostic parameter from data measured by the acceleration sensor, determines a degree of damage to a bearing or a gear included in a wind turbine generator based on the diagnostic parameter, and controls the monitoring terminal to show information indicating a degree of suppression of electric...