Methods and apparatus for electronic sensor adjustments
Assigneeepro GmbH
InventorsChristian Pliete, Thomas Wewers
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus for electronic sensor adjustment are disclosed. A disclosed example sensor device for use with an asset includes a housing to be coupled to the asset, a data acquisition sensor to provide first sensor output, a position sensor to provide second sensor output, the position sensor having a movable portion, and programmable circuitry to execute instructions to determine, based on the second sensor output, an offset of the movable portion for adjustment of the first sensor output, and adjust the first sensor output based on the offset.
Claims20
A sensor device for use with an asset, the sensor device comprising:
- a housing to be threadably coupled to the asset about a first axis of rotation;
- a data acquisition sensor to provide a first sensor output;
- a potentiometer to provide a second sensor output, the potentiometer having a movable portion that is rotatable about a second axis of rotation, the second axis of rotation aligned with the first axis of rotation;
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- programmable circuitry to execute instructions to:
- determine, based on the second sensor output, an offset of the movable portion for adjustment of the first sensor output, and
- adjust the first sensor output based on the offset.
An apparatus for adjustment of an output from a data acquisition sensor of a sensor device that includes a threaded portion to be threadably coupled to an asset about a first axis of rotation, the apparatus comprising:
- interface circuitry communicatively coupled to a potentiometer of the sensor device;
- machine readable instructions;
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- programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to:
- determine a positional deviation of a movable portion of the potentiometer, the movable portion rotatable about a second axis of rotation, the second axis of rotation at least one of parallel or colinear with the first axis of rotation,
- determine an adjustment of the output of the data acquisition sensor based on the positional deviation, and
- adjust the output of the data acquisition sensor based on the adjustment.
A non-transitory machine readable storage medium comprising instructions to cause programmable circuitry to at least:
- determine an offset of a movable portion of a potentiometer, the movable portion rotatable about a first axis of rotation, the offset corresponding to orienting the movable portion with respect to a reference,
- determine an adjustment of an output of a data acquisition sensor based on the offset, the data acquisition sensor threaded into an asset about a second axis of rotation that is aligned with the first axis of rotation, and
- adjust the output based on the determined adjustment.
A method comprising:
- coupling a sensor device to an asset via a threaded interface, the threaded interface defining a first axis of rotation, the sensor device including a data acquisition sensor;
- adjusting an orientation of a movable portion of a potentiometer based on a reference corresponding to the asset, the movable portion rotatable about a second axis of rotation that is parallel to the first axis of rotation;
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- causing the data acquisition sensor to operate such that an output from the data acquisition sensor is adjusted based on the orientation of the movable portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.