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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2016
W.w. Grainger, Inc., Lake Forest, IL (US);
Brice Klein, Chicago, IL (US);
Alessia Serafino, Palatine, IL (US);
Yashaswini Madhavan, Lake Forest, IL (US);
Jerry Shim, Park Ridge, IL (US);
Norman Lee, Lake Forest, IL (US);
Murtaza Haider, Champaign, IL (US);
Lindsay Hai, Lake Forest, IL (US);
Mary Pietrowicz, Lake Forest, IL (US);
Xiaoyue Chen, Lake Forest, IL (US);
W.W. Grainger, Inc., Lake Forest, IL (US);
Abstract
A sensor housing system is used to monitor the lifetime of a motor or other device. A protected housing shields a microprocessor and several sensors. The device communicates to a user information about the health of the motor or other device using thermal, vibrational, or other measurements. The information is compared to a baseline which provides a warning threshold. Once the threshold is passed, the microprocessor can alert the user that the motor or other device is about to fail.