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US 2025/0196950 A1Published application
Ultrasonic wear measurement for a track pad
AssigneeCaterpillar Inc.
InventorsBenjamin Isaac Jones, Mircea Dumitru
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Abstract
An onboard track machine wear measurement system has an ultra-sonic probe that is attached to an undercarriage of the machine that is disposed adjacent to a track chain assembly, and a controller that is in communication with the ultra-sonic probe. The controller is configured to determine the thickness of a load bearing wall of a track component of the track chain assembly.
Claims22
A track machine wear measurement system, comprising:
- an ultra-sonic probe that is configured to be:
- disposed adjacent to a track component, a track chain assembly of a machine, that includes a hollow interior with a surface that is disposed underneath a load bearing surface, and
- attached to an undercarriage that is disposed adjacent to a track chain assembly that includes the track component;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- communicate with the ultra-sonic probe, and
- determine a thickness of a load bearing wall of the track component based on communicating with the ultra-sonic probe.
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A system, comprising:
- a track pad that includes a hollow interior with a surface that is disposed underneath a load bearing surface;
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- an ultra-sonic probe that is configured to face the load bearing surface and to measure a load bearing wall thickness.
A system, comprising:
- a track pad configured to be measured by a track machine wear measurement system that includes an ultra-sonic probe,
- the track pad including a hollow interior with a surface that is disposed underneath a load bearing surface that is configured to be adjacent to the ultra-sonic probe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.