Compressor control systems and air compressor systems and vehicles equipped therewith
AssigneeVanair Manufacturing, Inc.
InventorsRalph Kokot, Jr., Mark Alan Firnhaber
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Abstract
Compressor control systems capable of increasing the reliability and uptime of air compressor systems that operate in harsh corrosive outdoor environments by redundantly sensing one or more operating parameters of the air compressor systems. Such a compressor control system includes a controller adapted to monitor at least a first operating parameter of a component of the air compressor system, at least first and second sensors that are physically separate and spaced apart from each other and that redundantly sense the first operating parameter of a component of the air compressor system, and separate and independent wiring harnesses electrically connecting the first and second sensors to the controller.
Claims18
A compressor control system of an air compressor system, the compressor control system comprising:
- a controller adapted to monitor at least a first operating parameter of a component of the air compressor system, the component comprising an air/oil separator tank of the air compressor system;
- at least first and second sensors that are physically separate and spaced apart from each other and redundantly sense the first operating parameter of the component the first and second sensors being both fluidically connected to the component by a first conduit, the first operating parameter being transmitted with a fluid flowing through the first conduit from the component to each of first and second sensors;
- at least a third sensor fluidically connected to the component by a second conduit that is separate from the first conduit;
- a manifold within an enclosure that is located remotely from the component, the first, second, and third sensors being mounted to the manifold, the first and second conduits fluidically connecting the manifold to the component;
- a third conduit through which the fluid flows from the manifold back to an air compressor of the air compressor system;
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- separate and independent wiring harnesses electrically connecting the first and second sensors to the controller.
The compressor control system of 6, wherein the fluid transmits the first and second operating parameters from the component through the first and second conduits and then through the manifold to each of first, second, and third sensors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.