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US 2024/0318775 A1Published application
Pump having diagnostic system
AssigneeLincoln Industrial Corporation
InventorPaul G. Conley
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Abstract
Apparatus and method for supplying lubricant to a plurality of lubrication sites. Embodiments include a pump with venting and non-venting piston return, a pump with stirrer and direct feed mechanism, a pump with CAN system and self-diagnostics, a pump with heated housing and reservoir, a pump with stepper motor and overdrive control and a pump able to be used with a plurality of different types or of lubrication systems.
Claims15
A lubrication system for lubricating bearings, the lubrication system comprising:
- at least one lubrication pump configured to pump lubricant to the bearings;
- at least one valve configured to distribute the pumped lubricant to one or more of the bearings;
- a lubrication controller in communication with and configured to control the at least one lubrication pump, the lubrication controller including a processor and a tangible, computer readable non-transitory storage medium including processor executable instructions for controlling the operation of the at least one lubrication pump when executed by the processor, wherein the instructions include instructions for controlling the at least one lubrication pump in a first state and controlling the at least one lubrication pump in a second state, wherein in the first state the at least one lubrication pump is controlled to pump lubricant to the bearings through one of a progressive valve distribution system, a dual-line distribution system or an injector distribution system, wherein in the second state the at least one lubrication pump is controlled to pump lubricant to the bearings through a different one of the progressive valve distribution system, the dual-line distribution system or the injector distribution system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.