Adaptive high frequency energy detection
First Claim
1. A data collector for detecting and quantifying high frequency energy in a received signal, comprisingan analog to digital converter converting said received signal to a digitized signal at a sampling rate that is sufficient to reproduce a highest frequency of interest in said received signal, and a digital signal processing circuit that receives said digitized signal and performs processing steps to isolate high frequency pulses in the digitized signal from lower frequency components of the digitized signal, and process said high frequency pulses by forming a time-varying peak-detected signal from said high frequency pulses, the time variation of the peak-detected signal corresponding to time variation of peak amplitudes of the high frequency pulses, to quantify energy content of the isolated pulses.
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Abstract
A data collector having a digital signal processing circuit that receives a digitized vibration signal, and performs processing steps to isolate high frequency pulses in the digitized vibration signal and quantify energy content of those pulses by detecting a peak negative value of the digitized peak-to-peak amplitude of the received vibration signal, and then using this peak negative value to compute a maximum peak-to-peak value of the received vibration signal. Periodically, the maximum peak-to-peak value and peak negative value are reduced in magnitude by a decay factor, such that the peak negative value and maximum peak-to-peak value decay over time. The decay factors used in computing the maximum peak-to-peak value and peak negative value are determined by the digital signal processing circuit and may be readily changed. As a consequence, high frequency processing performed by the digital signal processing circuit may be readily adapted to the particular frequency characteristics of the machine being analyzed for predictive maintenance, without modification of the analog circuitry of the data collector. The resulting maximum peak-to-peak value comprises a peak-detected digital output signal that may be stored and/or displayed to a user as a reflection of the high frequency content of the vibration signal, or frequency transformed for storage and/or display to a user.
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31 Claims
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1. A data collector for detecting and quantifying high frequency energy in a received signal, comprising
an analog to digital converter converting said received signal to a digitized signal at a sampling rate that is sufficient to reproduce a highest frequency of interest in said received signal, and a digital signal processing circuit that receives said digitized signal and performs processing steps to isolate high frequency pulses in the digitized signal from lower frequency components of the digitized signal, and process said high frequency pulses by forming a time-varying peak-detected signal from said high frequency pulses, the time variation of the peak-detected signal corresponding to time variation of peak amplitudes of the high frequency pulses, to quantify energy content of the isolated pulses.
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2. A data collector for detecting and quantifying high frequency energy in a received vibration signal from a rotating machine, comprising
an analog to digital converter converting said received vibration signal to a digitized vibration signal at a sampling rate that is sufficient to reproduce a highest frequency of interest in said received vibration signal, and a digital signal processing circuit that receives said digitized vibration signal and performs processing steps to isolate high frequency pulses in the digitized vibration signal from lower frequency components of the digitized signal, and process said high frequency pulses to quantify energy content of the isolated pulses and evaluate the potential for mechanical faults in the rotating machine.
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16. A method of detecting and quantifying high frequency energy in a received signal, comprising
converting said received signal to a digitized signal at a sampling rate that is sufficient to reproduce a highest frequency of interest in said received signal, and receiving said digitized signal, isolating high frequency pulses in the digitized signal from lower frequency components of the digitized signal, and processing said high frequency pulses by forming a time-varying peak-detected signal from said high frequency pulses, the time variation of the peak-detected signal corresponding to time variation of peak amplitudes of the high frequency pulses, to quantify energy content of the isolated pulses.
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17. A method for detecting and quantifying high frequency energy in a received vibration signal from a rotating machine, comprising
converting said received vibration signal to a digitized vibration signal at a sampling rate that is sufficient to reproduce a highest frequency of interest in said received vibration signal, and receiving said digitized vibration signal, isolating high frequency pulses in the digitized vibration signal from lower frequency components of the digitized signal, and processing said high frequency pulses to quantify energy content of the isolated pulses and evaluate the potential for mechanical faults in the rotating machine.
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