ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,956, issued on June 24, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).
"System and method for monitoring clutch wear" was invented by Ron L. Woods (Weatherford, Texas), Trenton A. Hamm (Cleburne, Texas) and Eric S. Olson (Fort Worth, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes measuring a first rotational speed of a first element of a sprag clutch of a rotorcraft, measuring a second rotational speed of a second element of the sprag clutch, determining if the sprag clutch is in an overrunning condition, wherein the determining is based on the first rotational speed and the second rotational speed, generating a...