Caterpillar Inc.

Ashok Rajendran

Gregory Allan Seljestad

Kadirvel Muthusamy

Gopalakrishnan Kanniappan

Venkatesh Madeshi

Anuop Udayakumar

Chunhui Pan

Chijie Lin

A wear plate assembly for a ground engaging system. The wear plate assembly includes a wear plate, a connection plate, and a lock cavity. The wear plate has a back surface and a front surface spaced from the back surface along a first direction. The connection plate extends from the front surface at least partially in the first direction. The connection plate has an inner surface and an outer surface spaced from the inner surface along a second direction. The lock cavity is formed by the connection plate. The lock cavity extends from a first opening that opens to the inner surface to a second opening that opens to the outer surface. The first opening has a first diameter and the second opening has a second diameter that is smaller than the first diameter.

Ground engaging tool system

A breaker tine comprises a front elongated portion, a rear elongated portion, a nose portion extending from the front elongated portion at an opposite end from the rear elongated portion, and a replaceable ground engaging tool coupled to the nose portion of the breaker tine. The breaker tine may include pins for attaching the ground engaging tool to the breaker tine. The breaker tine may further include a first receiving cavity formed in a first side of the nose portion, and a second receiving cavity formed in a second side of the nose portion, wherein the first receiving cavity is opposite the second receiving cavity but do not communicate or connect with each other.

Replaceable tip systems for a tine

The present disclosure is directed to a computer-implemented method for modeling a mounting assembly having a mounting strap configured to couple a component to a bracket. The method includes modeling a loosened configuration of the mounting strap, wherein the loosened configuration provides a first substantially continuous curvature of portions of the mounting strap engaged with the bracket and the component. The method also includes applying simulated stresses to the mounting strap in the loosened configuration and outputting failure mode information of the mounting strap based on the simulated stresses on the mounting strap.

Method for modeling a mounting assembly and a mounting assembly

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Tamil Nadu, India

Ashok Rajendran