METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING ERRORS ON COMPONENTS OF ROTATING MACHINES BY THERMOGRAPHY
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Abstract
Computer-based detection of damage on machine components, such as misalignments and mechanical damage on bearings and clutches, is achieved using mathematical linkage of the temperatures of selected regions of thermography pictures. Photographs from the visible spectral range can be consulted in the computed-based detection.
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34 Claims
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18. A method for determining the state of components of a machine by evaluation of thermography pictures, comprising the steps of:
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comparing at least one first thermography picture to at least one reference thermography picture obtained previously, assigning at least one first pixel group of pixels in the at least one first thermography picture and in the at least one reference thermography picture as at least one cold site, wherein normalization of the at least one first thermography picture is performed with the result of a mathematical linkage of the temperatures of the at least one cold site in the at least one first thermography picture and in the at least one reference thermography picture, and wherein after said normalization, at least one second pixel or group of pixels is identified in the at least one first thermography picture as at least one first hot site and compared to the at least one reference thermography picture and assigned to a certain machine component. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A system for determining the state of components of a machine by evaluation of thermography pictures, comprising:
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a thermography camera for taking thermography pictures, a computer system, a database in which reference pictures taken by the thermography camera are stored, software implemented on the computer system for carrying out normalization a temperature at one cold site and at least one hot site by a mathematical linkage comparison of at least one first thermography picture with a reference picture from the database, the result of the mathematical linkage of the temperatures, and a display for displaying the result of the mathematical linkage. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34)
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