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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2001
Urs Moser, Zürich, CH;
Sulzer Markets and Technology AG, Winterhur, CH;
Abstract
A method and apparatus is proposed for judging the friction behavior between two counter-running partners, each of which has a contact surface, with the one contact surface moving along the other contact surface in the operating state. One of the contact surfaces is charged with ultrasonic signals (UI; UW), ultrasonic signals which are reflected by the contact surface are received as echo signals (ES), the echo signals (ES) are supplied to an evaluation unit as received signals, the Doppler shift of the received signals is determined by means of the evaluation unit, and the friction behavior between the counter-running partners is judged by means of the Doppler shift.