US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on May 5 for "Method of extending the lifetime of a rolling element bearing" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,746, issued on May 5, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Method of extending the lifetime of a rolling element bearing" was invented by Panagiotis Kakosimos (Vasteras, Sweden), Ingo Stroka (Vasteras, Sweden) and Dmitry Svechkarenko (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of extending the lifetime of a rolling-element bearing of an electrical machine, the method including: a) defining a first set of control parameter values, b) estimating a first remaining useful life, RUL, of the rolling-element bearing, based on a signal that provides a measure of vibrations of the rolling-element bearing obtained when th...