Systems and Methods for Remote Monitoring of Vibrations in Machines
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsMatthew Nelson, Naresh Iyer, John Hershey, Charles Seeley, Piero Bonissone, Kai Goebel
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Abstract
A system and method for monitoring the vibrations of a machine that includes a reflective patch affixed to the machine and a vibration detection unit including an optics module. The optics module may be positioned remotely from the machine such that the optics module transmits an electromagnetic beam to the reflective patch and reflected from the reflective patch to the optics module. The optics module demodulates the electromagnetic beam to determine the vibration of the machine.
Claims18
A system for monitoring the vibration of a machine, comprising:
- a reflective patch affixed to the machine;
- and
- a vibration detection unit comprising an optics module, wherein the optics module transmits an interrogator beam to the reflective patch and the reflective patch reflects a vibration modulated beam to the vibration detection unit, wherein the optics module of the vibration detection unit demodulates the interrogator beam to determine the vibration of the machine.
A method for monitoring the vibration of at least one machine, comprising:
- affixing at least one reflective patch to at least one machine;
- positioning a vibration detection unit, comprising an optics module, remotely from the at least one machine;
- transmitting an interrogator beam from the optics module to the at least one reflective patch affixed to the at least one machine;
- reflecting a vibration modulated beam from the at least one reflective patch to the optics module;
- and
- demodulating the vibration modulated beam to determine the vibration of the at least one machine.
A method for analyzing a plurality of machines from at least one facility, comprising:
- affixing at least one reflective patch to the plurality of machines in the at least one facility;
- positioning a vibration detection unit comprising an optics module remotely from the plurality of machines in the at least one facility;
- transmitting an interrogator beam from the optics module to the at least one reflective patch affixed to the plurality of machines in the at least one facility;
- reflecting a vibration modulated beam from the at least one reflective patch to the optics module in the at least one facility;
- demodulating the vibration modulated beam to determine the vibrational data of the at least one machine;
- transmitting the vibrational data of the at least one machine to a remote analysis facility;
- and
- determining statistical information from the vibrational data of the at least one machine from the plurality of facilities.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.