Aktiebolaget Skf

Stefan Engbers

Andreas Clemens Van Der Ham

Defeng Lang

Juergen Reichert

Dominik Fritz

Alireza Azarfar

Disclosed is a sensor roller for monitoring a lubrication condition of a roller bearing, the sensor roller providing a measuring unit for measuring at least a temperature, a speed change and a load of the roller, and a processing unit for generating a temperature profile, a speed change profile and a load profile of the roller based on the measured temperature and speed change.

Sensor roller

A method of determining the center of loading of a rolling element includes providing a rolling element body and at least three load sensors. The sensors are each positioned within a bore of the rolling element body at a separate distance from a reference position. Load measurements are taken with each one of the sensors at various positions about the circumference of the bearing and the center of loading is calculated at each one of the positions to determine the variation in axial loading about the bearing circumference.

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Wuerzburg, Germany

Stefan Engbers