ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,642, issued on June 24, was assigned to Shanghai Weiyan Precision Technology Co. Ltd (Shanghai).
"On-machine monitoring system for failure state of rotating tool and detection method therefor" was invented by Xi Zhang (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An on-machine monitoring system for the failure state of the rotating tool and a detection method thereof are provided. The monitoring system includes a detector, a data processing controller, a tool data server, and a Hall current sensor. A tool diameter and a tool length are determined according to image sequences of a tool. A wear state and a breakage state of the tool are det...