DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEASURING A ROTATIONAL MOVEMENT OF A ROTATABLE STRUCTURAL COMPONENT, IN PARTICULAR A ROTATIONAL DIRECTION

• US 20180074089A1
• Filed: 09/13/2017
• Published: 03/15/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Limited & Company KG (Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc)
• Original Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Limited & Company KG (Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc)
• Inventors: KESTERING, Jens
• Application Number:
  US15/702,964
• Publication Number:
  US 20180074089A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 21/003 Arrangements for testing or measuring for measuring vibrations G01H
• CPC Class Codes: F03D 17/00 Monitoring or testing of wind motors, e.g. diagnostics testing during commissioning of wind motors F03D13/30
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 13/045 with speed indication
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 3/263 by using fluidic impulse generators
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 3/36 Devices characterised by the use of optical means, e.g. using infrared, visible, or ultraviolet light G01P3/68 takes precedence; gyrometers using the Sagnac effect, i.e. rotation-induced shifts between counter-rotating electromagnetic beams G01C19/64
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 3/481 of pulse signals
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 3/486 delivered by photo-electric detectors
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 3/68 using optical means, i.e. using infrared, visible, or ultraviolet light G01P3/80 takes precedence ; by reflection of waves G01S17/58

Abstract

A device for measuring a rotational movement, in particular a rotational direction, of a rotatable structural component, in particular a shaft, with a receiver and a pattern carrier that has at least two pattern sites and that can be connected or is connected in such a manner to the rotatable structural component that it can be rotated together with the same about a rotational axis with respect to the receiver, so that at least one pattern site can be turned towards the receiver, wherein the receiver is embodied and configured to detect a pattern site that is turned towards it. Here, at least two receivers are provided, with respectively at least one of the pattern sites being turnable towards them.

Claims

1. A device for measuring a rotational movement, in particular a rotational direction, of a rotatable structural component, in particular a shaft, with a receiver and a pattern carrier that has at least two pattern sites and that can be connected or is connected to the rotatable structural component in such a manner that it can be rotated together with the same about a rotational axis with respect to the receiver, so that at least one pattern site can be turned towards the receiver, wherein the receiver is embodied and configured to detect a pattern site that is turned towards it, wherein at least two receivers are provided, with respectively at least one of the pattern sites being turnable towards them, wherein the receivers or the pattern sites are arranged along an angle extending circumferentially about the rotational axis in a manner offset with respect to one another, or are arranged with different offsets along the angle in a manner offset with respect to one another.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein, amongst themselves, the receivers and the pattern sites are arranged respectively in a direction perpendicular and/or parallel to the rotational axis in a manner offset with respect to one another.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein the pattern sites are arranged according to a first pattern, and the receivers are arranged according to a second pattern, wherein the first pattern is different from the second pattern.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein the pattern sites and/or the receivers are arranged along a straight line or along a curved line.

5. The device according to claim 1, wherein respectively at least three pattern sites and at least three receivers are provided, wherein each of the pattern sites can be respectively turned towards at least one of the receivers.

6. The device according to claim 1, wherein the receivers are embodied and configured to detect an information carrier exiting from a pattern site that is turned towards them or interacting with the pattern site, wherein the information carrier is in particular embodied as a radiation, as a mass flow and/or as a sound, in particular as light rays, as an airflow and/or as ultrasound.

7. The device according to claim 6, further having at least one sensor for detecting the information carrier, in particular in the form of an optical sensor, of a mass flow meter, of a manometer, and/or a microphone.

8. The device according to claim 6, further having at least one transmitting unit that is embodied and configured to emit the information carrier, and that in particular comprises at least one light source, air nozzle, and/or sound source.

9. The device according to claim 8, wherein the pattern carrier is arranged between the transmitting unit and the receivers.

10. The device according to claim 1, wherein the pattern carrier is embodied in the form of a punched disc, in particular in the form of a circular disc that is arranged coaxially to the rotational axis, wherein the pattern sites are respectively embodied in the form of a hole in the pattern carrier, and the pattern carrier is made of an optically opaque material.

11. The device according to claim 1, wherein the pattern sites extend through the pattern carrier substantially in parallel to the rotational axis.

12. The device according to claim 1, further having at least one anti-fogging appliance that directs a fluid flow, in particular an airflow, onto at least one of the receivers and/or at least one transmitting unit to avoid any depositing from the surrounding gas on the receiver.

13. A turbomachine, in particular an aircraft engine, with at least one shaft and at least one device according to claim 1.

14. The turbomachine according to claim 13, wherein at least one device is arranged in the area of a bearing site of the shaft.

15. A method for measuring a rotational movement, in particular a rotational direction, of a rotatable structural component, in particular a shaft, with a receiver and a pattern carrier that has at least two pattern sites and that is connected to the rotatable structural component in such a manner that it rotates together with the same about a rotational axis with respect to the receiver, so that the pattern site is periodically turned towards one of the receivers, wherein the receiver detects a pattern site that is turned towards it, wherein at least two receivers are provided, with respectively at least one of the pattern sites being turnable towards them, wherein the receiver or the pattern sites are arranged along an angle extending circumferentially about the rotational axis in a manner offset with respect to one another, or are arranged with a different offset along the angle in a manner offset with respect to one another.