Device and method for detecting abnormality of rotating body

• US 20070176763A1
• Filed: 11/30/2004
• Published: 08/02/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
• Original Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
• Inventors: Ueda, Hiroyuki, Murakami, Kazutomo
• Application Number:
  US10/596,407
• Publication Number:
  US 20070176763A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/443
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/061 by monitoring wheel speed measuring distance traversed on the ground by vehicles G01C22/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 17/025 using infrasonic, sonic or ultrasonic vibrations

Abstract

A device for detecting an abnormality of a rotating body is constituted of: means for measuring various physical quantities of the rotating body in rotation; means for extracting a signal which is synchronized with the rotation of the rotating body from the data measured by the measuring means; means for determining a condition of the rotating body from the signal extracted by the extracting means; and abnormality warning means for giving warning of abnormality when a condition of the rotating body is determined to be abnormal by the determining means. With the device and method of detecting an abnormality of a rotating body, abnormalities of a rotating body, particularly a burst and a separation of the tread of a tire, are detected at an early stage, so that accident can be prevented.

Claims

1. A device for detecting an abnormality of a rotating body characterized in that the improvement comprises:

means for measuring various physical quantities of the rotating body in rotation;

means for extracting a signal which is synchronized with the rotation of rotating body by the data measured by the measuring means;

means for determining a condition of the rotating body from the signal extracted by the extracting means; and

abnormality warning means for giving warning of abnormality when the determining means determine that the condition of the rotating body is abnormal;

wherein the extracting means comprise an adaptive digital filter which extracts a signal synchronized with the rotation and picks out a signal having no correlation with the rotation by means of a data measured by the measuring means and a signal synchronized with the rotation extracted by the extracting means, and adapts the adaptive digital filter by means of the signal picked out and having no correlation with the rotation.

2. The device for detecting an abnormality of a rotating body as claimed in claim 1, wherein the various physical quantities of the rotating body measured by the measuring means is a signal correlated with vibration, sound, rotating number or rotation.

3. The device for detecting an abnormality of a rotating body as claimed in claim 1, wherein a delayed data of the data measured by the measuring means is used in extracting a signal synchronized with the rotation in the extracting means.

4. The device for detecting an abnormality of a rotating body as claimed in claim 3, wherein the data delay time corresponds to one rotation time of the rotating body.

5. The device for detecting an abnormality of a rotating body as claimed in claim 3, wherein a delay circuit to delay the data is provided on a signal line between an input portion of data from the measuring means and an adaptive digital filter.

6. The device for detecting an abnormality of a rotating body as claimed in claim 3, wherein a delay circuit to delay the data is provided on a signal line between an input portion of data from the measuring means and a comparator to extract a signal having no correlation with the rotation.

7. The device for detecting an abnormality of a rotating body as claimed in claim 1, wherein an order component generated by calculating a rotating cycle from data of rotating information among the data measured by the measuring means is used in extracting a signal synchronized with the rotation in the extracting means.

8. The device for detecting an abnormality of a rotating body as claimed in claim 7, wherein an order component generation circuit to generate the order component is provided on a signal line between an input portion of rotation information data from the measuring means and an adaptive digital filter.

9. The device for detecting an abnormality of a rotating body as claimed in any of claim 1, wherein the data measured by the measuring means is sampled by a variable sampling in accordance with the data of rotating speed information of the data measured by the measuring means so as to make an apparent cycle constant in extracting a signal synchronized with the rotation in the extracting means.

10. The device for detecting an abnormality of a rotating body as claimed in claim 9, wherein a variable sampling circuit to perform a variable sampling is provided on the input portion of data from the measuring means.

11. A method for detecting an abnormality of a rotating body, characterized in that, by means of the device for detecting an abnormality of a rotating body as claimed in claim 1, it extracts a signal synchronized with the rotation of the rotating body from the various physical quantities of the rotating body in rotation, and detects the abnormality of the rotating body by using the extracted signal.