ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,853, issued on May 12, was assigned to Laitram LLC (Harahan, La.).
"System and method for detecting belt-pulley disengagement" was invented by Yorrick Mulder (Zaandam, Netherlands) and Sven-Erik Haitjema-Burrough (Koog aan de Zaan, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting disengagement of a modular articulating conveyor belt from a toothed pulley with a laser beam. A laser transmitter and a laser detector are positioned at opposite sides of the modular conveyor belt wrapped around a toothed pulley. The laser beam is directed from the laser transmitter to the laser detector along a line that is inter...