BEARING LIFE DETERMINATION DEVICE

• US 20150051846A1
• Filed: 08/12/2014
• Published: 02/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
• Original Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
• Inventors: MASUYA, Michi
• Application Number:
  US14/457,572
• Publication Number:
  US 20150051846A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/34
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 13/04 Bearings

Abstract

A corrected rotation amount, based on conversion to a rotation amount at a reference rotational speed, is obtained by multiplying a command speed read in each period by a period time and a coefficient value corresponding to the rotational speed. An integrated corrected rotation amount is obtained by integrating the corrected rotation amount. If this integrated corrected rotation amount exceeds a life limit value, the life of a bearing is determined to be exhausted.

Claims

1. A bearing life determination device for determining the life of a bearing which supports a rotation axis of a machine, the bearing life determination device comprising:

a storage unit stored with data for a coefficient corresponding to a rotational speed of the rotation axis or a calculation formula for calculating the coefficient from the rotational speed of the rotation axis;

a rotational speed detecting unit configured to detect the rotational speed of the rotation axis at a predetermined time interval;

a rotation amount calculating unit configured to calculate a rotation amount of the rotation axis based on the detected rotational speed and the time interval;

a corrected rotation amount calculating unit configured to obtain the coefficient corresponding to the rotational speed of the rotation axis detected by the rotational speed detecting unit, based on the data or the calculation formula stored in the storage unit and calculate a corrected rotation amount for life determination by multiplying the rotation amount calculated by the rotation amount calculating unit by the obtained coefficient;

a corrected rotation amount integrating unit configured to integrate the calculated corrected rotation amount to obtain an integrated corrected rotation amount; and

a determination unit configured to determine that the life of the bearing is exhausted when a predetermined value is exceeded by the integrated corrected rotation amount.

3. The bearing life determination device according to claim 1, wherein the rotation axis is driven by a speed-controlled motor, and the rotational speed detecting unit detects a rotational speed of the motor, based on a command speed for the motor or a speed feedback signal, and detects the rotational speed of the rotation axis from the rotational speed of the motor.

4. The bearing life determination device according to claim 3, wherein the machine is a machine tool.

2. A bearing life determination device for determining the life of a bearing which supports a rotation axis of a machine, the bearing life determination device comprising:

a storage unit stored with data for a coefficient corresponding to a rotational speed of the rotation axis or a calculation formula for calculating the coefficient from the rotational speed of the rotation axis;

a rotational speed detecting unit configured to detect the rotational speeds of a plurality of rotation axes at a predetermined time interval;

rotation amount calculating unit configured to calculate rotation amounts of the rotation axes based on the detected rotational speeds and the time interval;

a corrected rotation amount calculating unit configured to obtain the coefficient from the storage unit for each of the rotation axes, based on the rotational speeds detected by the rotational speed detecting unit, and calculate corrected rotation amounts for life determination by multiplying the respective rotation amounts of the rotation axes calculated by the rotation amount calculating unit by the obtained coefficient;

a corrected rotation amount integrating unit configured to integrate the calculated corrected rotation amounts for the individual rotation axes to obtain integrated corrected rotation amounts for the individual rotation axes; and

a determination unit configured to determine that the life of the bearing for the rotation axis with the integrated corrected rotation amount exceeding a predetermined value is exhausted.