Dodge Industrial, Inc.

Brandon W LeRoy

Artur Rdzanek

Isaac P O'Brien-Herr

Greg Hewitt

Erald Pjetri

Kevin E Walker

Stefan Pypec

A sensor for monitoring the quality of oil in mechanical machinery is provided. The sensor includes a portion that is sealed from the oil which contains electric circuitry to process signals received from the sensing elements. Another portion of the sensor is exposed to the oil and contains one or more sensing elements to sense one or more properties of the oil. The sensed properties may include electrical properties, temperature properties and/or optical properties.

Oil quality sensor

A drive pulley for a continuous conveyor includes an inner drum and a traction drum disposed along an outer peripheral surface of the inner drum. The traction drum has a thickness in a radial direction relative to the axle that is subject to wear during driving contact between the traction drum and a conveyor belt. At least one sensor is embedded in the traction drum. The at least one sensor has an outer wear surface that coincides with an outer surface of the traction drum. The at least one sensor is configured to wear such that the outer wear surface of the at least one sensor is adapted to wear at a same rate as the outer surface of the traction drum. The at least one sensor is configured to generate a wear signal that is indicative of wear of the traction drum.

Pulley wear sensor system and method

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Anderson, SC, United States of America

Brandon W LeRoy