Method and apparatus for estimating time to failure acceleration factor
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsJohn Erik Hershey, Brock Estel Osborn, Kati Illouz, Gerald Burt Kliman
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Abstract
An apparatus for estimating the time to failure acceleration factor of a large industrial includes a sensor, a clock for controlling sensor sampling times, and a memory address calculator for mapping output signals of the sensor to a memory address. A unit is provided for incrementing the content of a specified memory address by unity.
Claims17
An apparatus for estimating the time to failure acceleration factor of a large industrial motor, comprising:
- at least one sensor responsive to an environmental variable;
- a clock for controlling sampling times of said at least one sensor,
- a memory address calculator for mapping output signals of said at least one sensor to a memory address;
- and
- a memory unit for incrementing the content of said memory address by unity.
An apparatus for estimating the time to failure acceleration factor of a large industrial motor, comprising:
- a plurality of sensors, each of said sensors being responsive to a respective environmental variable;
- a clock for controlling sampling times of said sensors;
- a memory address calculator for mapping output signals of said sensors to a memory address;
- and
- a memory unit for incrementing the content of said memory address by unity.
A method for estimating the time to failure acceleration factor of a large industrial motor, comprising the steps of:
- periodically sampling an output signal from at least one sensor responsive to an environmental variable;
- mapping said output signal of said at least one sensor to a memory address;
- and
- incrementing the content of a memory at said memory address by unity.
A method for estimating the time to failure acceleration factor of a large industrial motor, comprising the steps of:
- periodically sampling output signals from a plurality of sensors, each of said sensors being responsive to a respective environmental variable;
- mapping said output signals of said sensors to a memory address;
- and
- incrementing the content of a memory at said memory address by unity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.