ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,072, issued on March 24.

"Fault detection method and system based on adapter tool shank" was invented by Dawei Guo (Zhuhai, China), Qian Qiao (Zhuhai, China), Ying Pan (Zhuhai, China) and Lapmou Tam (Zhuhai, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a fault detection method and system based on an adapter tool shank and relates to the technical field of fault diagnosis of mechanical equipment. The method includes: obtaining a displacement signal of the adapter tool shank; based on the displacement signal, determining a feed rate; based on the feed rate, building a cutting force model; based on the cutting fo...