US Patent Issued to Aktiebolaget SKF on Sept. 8 for "System for detecting contamination condition of lubricating grease of mechanical component and bearing system" (Chinese, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,101, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Aktiebolaget SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"System for detecting contamination condition of lubricating grease of mechanical component and bearing system" was invented by Xing Yi (Shanghai), Defeng Lang (Delft, Netherlands) and Yu Xin Zhou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a system for detecting the contamination condition of lubricating grease of a mechanical component. The system comprises a radio frequency signal generator, a sensor, a switch assembly and a radio frequency signal analyzer. The radio frequency signal generator generates a radio frequency sig...