Automatic fault reporting system

• US 4,675,675 A
• Filed: 11/17/1983
• Issued: 06/23/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/1983
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: The Boeing Co.
• Original Assignee: The Boeing Co.
• Inventors: Moore, Neal W., Corwin, Charles E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Caldwell, Sr., John W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Heim, Michael F.
• Application Number:
  US06/563,296
• Time in Patent Office: 1,314 Days
• Field of Search: 340/945, 340/963, 340/967, 340/971, 340/973, 244/76 R, 244/75 R, 244/227, 73/178 R, 73/178 T, 364/424, 364/427, 364/428, 364/434, 364/439, 364/463, 364/551, 364/580, 364/480, 364/481
• US Class Current: 340/945
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0264 Control of logging system, e.g. decision on which data to store; time-stamping measurements
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0283 Predictive maintenance, e.g. involving the monitoring of a system and, based on the monitoring results, taking decisions on the maintenance schedule of the monitored system; Estimating remaining useful life [RUL] preventive maintenance, i.e. planning maintenance according to the available resources without monitoring the system G06Q10/06

Abstract

Phase I (25) and Phase II (20) and III (24) AFRS (Automatic Fault Reporting System) signal processing implementations (FIG. 3) of fault related data permits utilization in steps, viz. Phase I and Phases II and III on board operational aircraft of AFRS, thereby permitting gradual phase in and substitution of AFRS for present state of the art flight crew FRM (Fault Reporting Manual) and ground personnel FIM (Fault Isolation Manual).

Claims

1. In combination in an automatic fault reporting system for aircraft having left, right, and center channel inertial reference systems:

means for detecting an internal fault in one of said left, right, or center channel inertial reference systems, with the remaining two channels forming a cross channel loop. circuit providing a fail discrete signal representative of an internal fault in one of said left, right, or center channel inertial reference systems;

means for storing said fail discrete signal representative of an internal fault in one of said left, right, or center channel inertial reference systems;

a flight management computer;

an aircraft very high frequency communications system;

a ground station;

said flight management computer commanding said means for storing said fail discrete signal representative of an internal fault in one of said left, right, or center channel inertial reference systems for transmitting said fail discrete signal representative of an internal fault in one of said left, right, or center channel inertial reference systems through said aircraft very high frequency communications system to said ground station.