Method for correcting permanent calibration and force-measuring balancing machine

• US 9,057,650 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2012
• Issued: 06/16/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Schenck Rotec GmbH (Durr AG)
• Original Assignee: Schenck Rotec GmbH (Durr AG)
• Inventors: Trukenmueller, Kai
• Primary Examiner(s): Rogers, David A
• Application Number:
  US13/723,547
• Publication Number:
  US 20130186170A1
• Time in Patent Office: 907 Days
• Field of Search: 73/10.1, 73/11.4, 735/79, 736/59, 736/60
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 5/0066 Calibration arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 1/02 Details of balancing machines or devices
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 1/08 Instruments for indicating directly the magnitude and phase of the imbalance
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 1/22 and converting vibrations due to imbalance into electric variables

Abstract

Using a force-measuring balancing machine (1), the empirically determined permanent calibration is corrected in that the resonant frequencies (ω₁) of the rotor (2) to be balanced are calculated, in a translatory direction and (ω₂) in a rotational direction, from the mass (m_R) of a rotor (2) to be balanced, which is mounted in the balancing machine (1), the co-oscillating mass (M_s) of the bearing supports (3), the rigidity (c) of the bearing supports (3) and the spacing (L) of the rotor bearings, and a frequency response calculated from the resonant frequencies (ω₁, ω₂) and the frequency (Ω) of the rotor (2) is introduced to the permanent calibration.

Claims

1. Method for correcting the empirically determined permanent calibration of a force-measuring balancing machine for measuring imbalance of a rotor rotatably mounted in the balancing machine in bearing supports having fitted sensing elements, the rotor having a rotor mass, the bearing supports having bearing support mass co-oscillating with the rotor mass, a selected stiffness, and rotor bearings having a selected spacing, comprising the steps of

calculating resonant frequencies of the rotor to be balanced, in a translatory direction corresponding to a measuring direction of the sensing elements and in a rotational direction about an axis which is perpendicular to the measuring direction and to a rotational axis of the rotor, from the rotor mass of the rotor to be balanced, the co-oscillating bearing support mass of the bearing supports, the stiffness of the bearing supports and the spacing of the rotor bearings of the bearing supports, and

introducing to the permanent calibration a frequency response calculated from the resonant frequencies and the rotor frequency.

2. Method according to claim 1, wherein the permanent calibration is established in the form of a calibration matrix P and, using a correction matrix H, which describes the frequency response, according to the formula:

P_k<sup>−

1</sup>=Q<sup>−

1</sup>HQP<sup>−

1</sup>,

is offset with respect to the corrected permanent calibration matrix P_k, the matrix Q being

3. Method according to claim 1 wherein the correction matrix is calculated according to the following formula:

4. Force-measuring balancing machine comprising resilient bearing supports, to which are fitted sensing elements which detect the dynamic effect of a rotor on the bearing supports, comprising a frequency sensor which detects the frequency of the rotor, and comprising an evaluation device which, for the purpose of signal evaluation, has an electronic computer having been programmed by means of an empirically determined permanent calibration process and a data memory containing the empirically determined machine parameters of stiffness and co-oscillating mass, wherein the electronic computer has a program for correcting the empirically determined permanent calibration process according to the method according to any of the preceding claims.