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US 9,176,024 B2Granted
Systems and methods for monitoring rotary equipment
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsRaymond Verle Jensen, Charles Terrance Hatch, Sean Kelly Summers
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Abstract
A system includes a first unitary measurement strip configured to be secured about a rotational component at a first axial location. The first unitary measurement strip includes a first set of one or more windows, each window of the first set of one or more windows is configured to correspond to a first respective tangential location of the rotational component at the first axial location, and each window of the first set of one or more windows is configured to be detectable via a first sensor.
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A system comprising:
- a first unitary measurement strip configured to be attached about a rotational component at a first axial location, the first unitary measurement strip having a first thickness, wherein the first unitary measurement strip comprises a first set of one or more windows formed in the first unitary measurement strip prior to attachment to the rotational component, each window of the first set of one or more windows is configured to correspond to a first respective tangential location of the rotational component at the first axial location, wherein each window of the first set of windows comprises a recess through an entirety of the first thickness of the first unitary measurement strip, and each window of the first set of one or more windows is configured to be detectable via a first non-optical sensor.
A system comprising:
- a first unitary measurement strip configured to be attached about a rotational component at a first axial location, the first unitary measurement strip having a first thickness, wherein the first unitary measurement strip comprises a first set of one or more windows formed in the first unitary measurement strip prior to attachment to the rotational component, and each window of the first set of one or more windows is configured to correspond to a first respective tangential location of the rotational component at the first axial location, wherein each window of the first set of windows comprises a recess through an entirety of the first thickness of the first unitary measurement strip;
- a first non-optical sensor configured to transmit first operational feedback based at least in part on when the first non-optical sensor detects each window of the first set of one or more windows from a radial direction;
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- a controller coupled to the first non-optical sensor and configured to determine an operational parameter of the rotational component based at least in part on the first operational feedback.
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A method comprising:
- determining an operational parameter of a rotational component with a first unitary measurement strip attached about the rotational component at a first axial location, the first unitary measurement strip having a first thickness, wherein the first unitary measurement strip comprises a first set of one or more windows formed in the first unitary measurement strip prior to attachment to the rotational component, each window of the first set of one or more windows is configured to correspond to a first respective tangential location of the rotational component at the first axial location, wherein each window of the first set of windows comprises a recess through an entirety of the first thickness of the first unitary measurement strip, and each window of the first set of one or more windows is configured to be radially detectable via a first non-optical sensor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.