USB vibration data acquisition
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsRichard Truman Lane, Jr., Thomas Franklin Kalb, Michael Lee Kidd, Nathan Andrew Weller
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Abstract
A system for collecting and analyzing vibration data is provided. The system includes: at least one sensor for sensing vibrations and producing an electrical signal corresponding to the sensed vibrations; a Universal Serial Bus (USB) communication device for receiving the electrical signal corresponding to the sensed vibrations from the at least one sensor and conditioning and sampling the electrical signal to produce a conditioned signal; and a data collector for receiving the conditioned signal and storing the conditioned signal in a data storage device.
Claims19
A system for collecting and analyzing vibration data, the system comprising:
- at least one sensor for sensing vibrations and producing an electrical signal corresponding to the sensed vibrations;
- a Universal Serial Bus (USB) communication device coupled to the at least one sensor, the USB communication device receiving the electrical signal corresponding to the sensed vibrations from the at least one sensor and conditioning and sampling the electrical signal to produce a conditioned signal;
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- a data collector coupled to the USB communication device, the data collector receiving the conditioned signal and storing the conditioned signal in a data storage device.
A vibration data acquisition system, comprising:
- at least one sensor for sensing vibrations and producing an electrical signal corresponding to the sensed vibrations;
- a Universal Serial Bus (USB) communication device coupled to the at least one sensor, the USB communication device receiving the electrical signal corresponding to the sensed vibrations from the at least one sensor and conditioning and sampling the electrical signal to produce a conditioned signal;
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- a data collector a data collector coupled to the USB communication device, the data collector receiving the conditioned signal and storing the conditioned signal in a data storage device, the data collector including a power supply configured to supply power to the USB communication device.
A portable vibration data acquisition system, comprising:
- at least one sensor for sensing vibrations and producing an electrical signal corresponding to the sensed vibrations;
- a Universal Serial Bus (USB) communication device coupled to the at least one sensor, the USB communication device receiving the electrical signal corresponding to the sensed vibrations from the at least one sensor and conditioning and sampling the electrical signal to produce a conditioned signal;
- a portable data collector coupled to the USB communication device, the portable data collector receiving the conditioned signal and storing the conditioned signal in a data storage device, the data collector including a power supply configured to supply power to the USB communication device;
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- at least one set of buffers for temporarily storing the conditioned signal before being stored in the data storage device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.