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US 12,649,645 B2Granted
Lifting system
AssigneeTata Steel Ijmuiden B.V.
InventorPeter Stam
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Abstract
A lifting system for a metallurgical plant including an object with one or more trunnions and a lifting device with one or more lifting hooks for receiving the trunnions, wherein the lifting system further includes a detection system, the detection system includes a receiver, a sensor, a magnet and a transmitter, and wherein the magnet and the sensor are aligned upon correct alignment of at least one lifting hook and one trunnion such that a signal is submitted to the receiver.
Claims17
A lifting system for a metallurgical plant comprising
- an object with one or more trunnions and
- a lifting device with one or more lifting hooks for receiving the trunnions,
- wherein the lifting system further comprises a detection system, the detection system comprising a receiver unit, a sensor unit, a magnet and a transmitter unit, and
- wherein the magnet is a permanent magnet, and
- wherein the magnet and the sensor unit are aligned upon correct alignment of at least one lifting hook and one trunnion such that a signal is submitted to the receiver unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.