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AssigneeContiTech Deutschland GmbH
InventorsJack Bruce Wallace, Atrayee Neog, Jacques Frederick Basson
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A system for monitoring conveyor belt wear including a belt with a cover layer having a preset pattern of insets having one or more predetermined characteristics, at least one sensor configured to obtain information associated with the predetermined characteristic(s) of the insets, and electronic circuitry operably coupled to the at least one sensor and configured to receive the information associated with the predetermined characteristic(s) of the insets. The circuitry is configured to: detect and identify the respective insets in the cover layer based at least upon the information associated with the predetermined characteristic(s) of the insets received from the sensor; monitor changes in the respectively identified insets over time; determine at least one wear metric of the belt based at least upon the monitored changes in the respectively identified insets; and output the determined at least one wear metric for further analysis and/or display.
A system for monitoring conveyor belt wear, the system comprising:
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A method controlled by one or more processors, comprising:
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A non-transitory computer readable medium storing program code which when executed by one or more processors performs at least the steps:
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