REMOTE FIELD FAN BALANCING SYSTEM
    1.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230407883A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-21

    申请号:US18338600

    申请日:2023-06-21

    申请人: Sebastian Eichler

    发明人: Sebastian Eichler

    IPC分类号: F04D29/66 G01M1/32 F04D27/00

    摘要: Apparatus and associated methods relate to apparatus for balancing a fan. In an illustrative example, a fan balancing system may include a local device and a remote device. For example, the local device may include a sensing unit and a processing unit. The remote device may, for example, include a user interface and a controller wirelessly coupled to the local device. For example, the controller may receive a user input including a total number of blades of a fan from the user interface. When the fan is activated, a condensed imbalance profile may be received wirelessly from the local device releasably coupled to the fan. In some implementations, the controller may generate a balancing matrix including combinations of weights and positions of the weights along one or more blades of the fan. Various embodiments may advantageously generate a placement combination of weights to re-balance the fan remotely.

    Rotor balancing method and apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US11698320B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-11

    申请号:US17048579

    申请日:2019-04-18

    发明人: Zhiqiang Meng

    摘要: A rotor balancing method for a gas turbine on a balancing machine, includes performing a base run by running the rotor at an intended balance speed and measuring the vibrations at a first pedestal; carrying out partial balancing; performing a first influence run by fitting a first balancing weight to a first correction plane in order to reduce vibrations at the first pedestal; performing a second influence run by fitting a first calibration weight to a second correction plane, running the rotor at the intended balance speed and measuring the vibrations at the first pedestal and the second pedestal, and removing the first calibration weight; and carrying out final balancing of the rotor by fitting a final balancing weight to the first correction plane and a second balancing weight to the second correction plane dependent on vibrations measured as part of the first influence run and the second influence run.

    Rotor balance assembly
    4.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11578599B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-14

    申请号:US17165247

    申请日:2021-02-02

    IPC分类号: F01D5/02 F01D5/06 G01M1/32

    摘要: A rotor assembly comprises a rotor having annular flange including a plurality of protrusions axisymmetrically disposed about the annular flange, each protrusion having a mounting aperture for selectively receiving a balancing feature, and a plurality of slots axisymmetrically disposed about the circumference of the annular flange between adjacent protrusions. Each slot has a pair of converging flat portions extending axially inwardly from an adjacent protrusion end, an inner flat portion at an inner end of each slot, and a pair of curved portions respectively joining each converging flat portion to the inner flat portion in each slot. Each slot has a depth at least as great as an adjacent mounting aperture depth extending normally from the adjacent protrusion end to a far end of the corresponding mounting aperture.

    Tire load estimation system and method

    公开(公告)号:US11298991B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-12

    申请号:US16509619

    申请日:2019-07-12

    摘要: A tire load estimation system includes at least one tire supporting a vehicle, in which the at least one tire includes a pair of sidewalls extending to a circumferential tread. A sensor is mounted to the at least one tire. A footprint is formed by the tread and includes a centerline with a footprint centerline length. The footprint centerline length is measured by the sensor. A tire load estimator receives a precalibrated sensitivity, the footprint centerline length during straight-line driving conditions, a reference footprint value, and a reference load value as inputs. The tire load estimator determines an estimation of tire load and outputs the estimation to at least one of a vehicle control system and a vehicle electronic control unit. A method for estimating the load of a tire is also provided.

    Method for acquiring unbalance amount of rotor

    公开(公告)号:US10928267B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-23

    申请号:US15817177

    申请日:2017-11-18

    摘要: A method for acquiring unbalance amount of a rotor, comprises: manufacturing a rotor where the rotational journal of the rotor forms the rotation axis of the rotor; mounting the connecting part to the rotational journal of the rotor to form an assembly where the connecting part forms the rotation axis of the assembly, the connecting part and the rotor can be rotated with a relative angle, and the relative position between the rotation axis of the rotor and the rotation axis of the rotor assembly is kept unchanged before and after the rotor and the connecting part are relatively rotated with the certain angle.

    Balancing device for a rotor including multidirectional balancing tools

    公开(公告)号:US10731466B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-04

    申请号:US15780240

    申请日:2016-12-01

    摘要: A device for balancing a turbomachine rotor having a driver rotor and a driven rotor is provided. The device comprises a base that is coaxially fixable to the turbomachine rotor and configured to transfer torque from the driver rotor to the driven rotor. The device also comprises at least three balancing tools arranged on the base, each balancing tool (i) defining a respective balancing direction along a radial direction of the base and (ii) comprising: a weight moveable along the respective balancing direction, and a motor configured to move the weight along the respective balancing direction to balance the rotor.

    Apparatus and method for transport of balancing weights

    公开(公告)号:US10569983B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-25

    申请号:US15813489

    申请日:2017-11-15

    摘要: Apparatus and a method for transporting and positioning of balancing weights connected together to form a chain of balancing weights is disclosed. A drive means comprises at least a transport wheel and/or a transport belt. The drive means has at least one cam to interface with a gap between two adjacent balancing weights of the chain of balancing weights. Furthermore a cutter may be provided for cutting of balancing weights from the chain.

    METHOD FOR CALIBRATING A BALANCING MACHINE
    10.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190271609A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-05

    申请号:US16282751

    申请日:2019-02-22

    发明人: Kai TRUKENMUELLER

    IPC分类号: G01M1/32 G01M1/14

    摘要: A method is described for calibrating a balancing machine, in which a rotor (1) to be corrected is rotatably mounted in bearings (2) and a correction run k is performed, wherein at least one measuring sensor (3) determines an initial vibration of the rotor (1) prior to an imbalance correction and transmits this vibration to an evaluation device (4), which stores the measured value as vibration vector {right arrow over (s)}0. After an imbalance on the rotor (1) is corrected, a residual vibration of the rotor (1) is measured by measuring sensor (3), transmitted to the evaluation unit (4) and stored as vibration vector {right arrow over (s)}1. The difference δ{right arrow over (s)}={right arrow over (s)}1-{right arrow over (s)}0 formed from the measurement data and the corrected imbalance is stored for compensation run k as δ{right arrow over (s)}k and {right arrow over (u)}k by the evaluation unit (4). To undertake a calibration of the machine, one can either determine a process calibration matrix K by solving the equation system S=UKT using the collected measurement data or one can select an already available process calibration matrix using the initial vibration {right arrow over (s)}0 and/or imbalance vector {right arrow over (u)} and store it as a calibration matrix in the evaluation unit (4) and use it to calculate an unknown imbalance vector of a rotor (1).