Patent ID: 11940373
Assignee: REXNORD FLATTOP EUROPE S.R.L.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 12:
13. System for estimating the extent of a friction interaction between a transport surface of a conveyor of articles and articles transported on the transport surface, comprising:
a test article representative of the articles in a batch of articles that have to be transported by the conveyor of articles;
a sensor associated with the test article, said sensor comprising an acceleration sensor associated with the test article that is arranged to measure at least one acceleration along a direction lying in a plane that is oriented relative to a support plane of the test article;
a monitoring system for acquiring measurements of said at least one acceleration performed by the acceleration sensor of the sensor associated with the test article when, in use, the test article is supported on a moving transport surface of the conveyor of articles, and
a computing device associated with the monitoring system for estimating the extent of a friction interaction between the transport surface and the test article based on the acquired measurements of the at least one acceleration.