ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,734, issued on April 7, was assigned to HERRENKNECHT AG (Schwanau, Germany).
"Cutting wheel for a cutting boring machine" was invented by Gerhard Wehrmeyer (Schwanau, Germany) and Jens Brandt (Bad Krozingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a cutting wheel (103) for a tunnel boring machine, a tool condition monitoring device is provided to monitor the condition of at least one mining tool (112, 115, 118) during removal of a geological structure present, during tunneling, at the cutting wheel (103) in a tunneling direction. At least one support part (121, 124, 127) is installed separately and at a distance from the or a relev...