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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2022
Konecranes Global Corporation, Hyvinkää, FI;
Lukas Pieper, Bochum, DE;
Moritz Sagurna, Bochum, DE;
Konecranes Global Corporation, Hyvinkää, FI;
Abstract
A wheel block, preferably for an overhead traveling crane, wherein the wheel block comprises a housing and a wheel mounted in the housing and protruding out of the housing. In order to allow for proactive maintenance of the wheel with a simple checking process and simultaneously reliable loading and, in particular, overloading detection and identification, according to the invention, the wheel block has a contactless operating measuring device for determining the distance between the measuring device and the wheel, in order to detect and/or identify and/or predict any current and/or future wear on the wheel and/or a loading, in particular an unloaded state and/or an overloaded state, of the wheel block based on measurement signals or measurement data from the measuring device and an evaluation thereof.