ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,506, issued on May 26, was assigned to SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & Co. KG (Munich).
"Test system" was invented by Dennis Rotthaus (Dortmund, Germany), Marc Schombierski (Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany) and Oktay Ozcan (Kamp-Lintfort, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for testing the condition of a stator and/or rotor of an electrical machine, the system includes a test vehicle, a track-changing unit and a control unit. The test vehicle is equipped with at least one test device and is inserted into the air gap between a rotor and a stator of an electric machine, in particular of a generator, which stator has axially extend...