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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110291850 | MACHINE VIBRATION MONITORING A system and method of monitoring vibrations, in a machine having a rotating element, where composite vibration signals are measured and filtered into discreet vector components associated with machine operating frequency. The filtered vectors are then evaluated to obta... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110193715 | DYNAMIC CONDITION MONITORING SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED WEB SERVER A dynamic condition monitoring system is disclosed, such as for monitoring vibrations in complex machine systems. The system includes monitors on which server software is provided. The server software may access pre-defined graphical user interface pages that can be pop... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110175746 | SCANNER FOR VIBRATION MAPPING A method of detecting motion in components that form part of a structure. The method includes flooding a first component with transmitted radio frequency signals and receiving reflected radio frequency signals from the first component with an antenna. The method further... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20100085205 | Systems and Methods for Sensor-Level Machine Monitoring According embodiments of the invention, systems and methods for sensor-level machine monitoring are provided. In one example embodiment, there is disclosed a system for monitoring a machine. The system may include a first sensor including a first processor and a second ... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100009833 | AUTOMATIC BALANCE ADJUSTING CENTRIFUGE AND THE CONTROL METHOD THEREOF The present invention relates to an automatic balance adjusting centrifuge which calculates the magnitude and the location of imbalance of itself based on the vibration generated in the dynamic state and automatically compensate for the imbalance based on the calculatio... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20100001874 | REMOTE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING ONSET OF STRUCTURAL FAILURE A method for monitoring a structure subject to a mechanical load comprises measuring physical parameters associated with natural oscillations of the structure, transforming the physical parameters into normal mode spectra, and broadcasting an alarm as a function of a ch... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090231153 | COMPACT SELF-CONTAINED CONDITION MONITORING DEVICE The present invention provides a new and unique method and apparatus for monitoring a device, such as a pump. The device may also include a fan, compressor, turbine or other rotating or reciprocating piece of machinery. In one embodiment, the method features sensing in ... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090091465 | Monitoring Apparatus and Method The present invention relates to hand held tool monitoring apparatus (10). The hand held tool monitoring apparatus (10) comprises a mount, which in use of the hand held tool monitoring apparatus forms part of a hand held tool (22), and a monitoring ... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20090048689 | ACTUATION RESPONSE OSCILLATION DETECTION MONITOR A method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for monitoring an actuator for a control surface on an aircraft. In one advantageous embodiment, an error signal generated is received in response to sending a command to the actuator to move the control surface on t... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090040061 | Apparatus and system for monitoring tool use An apparatus and system for monitoring usage of one or more power tools, the system comprising setting means by which a prescribed extent of usage of a tool can be set. The prescribed extent of usage is determined by conversion of usage units into time units using a con... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20080252475 | Monitoring Method and Apparatus Using Asynchronous, One-Way Transmission from Sensor to Base Station A monitoring system is disclosed, which includes a base station and at least one sensor unit that is separate from the base station. The sensor unit resides in a dormant state that uses no power, until it is awaked by the triggering of vibration-sensitive switch. Once a... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080204266 | Method and Device For Implementing Vibration Output Commands in Mobile Terminal Devices The present invention relates to method implementing vibration output commands for controlling a vibration actuator of a mobile terminal device and mobile terminal devices to execute this method. The method is based on defining at least one vibration effect, defined by ... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080186194 | Dynamic condition monitoring system employing a multi-core processor A dynamic condition monitoring system is disclosed for monitoring dynamic conditions such as vibration in a machine system. The monitoring system includes monitors coupled to sensors instrumenting the machine system. A multi-core processor in the monitors performs compl... | 08/07/2008 |
| 20080079598 | Dynamic condition monitoring system with integrated web server A dynamic condition monitoring system is disclosed, such as for monitoring vibrations in complex machine systems. The system includes monitors on which server software is provided. The server software may access pre-defined graphical user interface pages that can be pop... | 04/03/2008 |
| 20070086594 | Signal processor, method of signal processing and computer program A CPU generates the reference value (root mean squared value) of sound level and outputs it to a DSP, the DSP generates a measured value of sound level (root mean squared value), and compares thus-generated measured value of sound level (root mean squared value) with th... | 04/19/2007 |
| 20060101914 | Acoustic emission inspection of coiled tubing A method for testing tubing having the following steps: plastically deforming the tubing with a tubing handling system, the tubing handling system having a reel, a gooseneck and an injector; sensing with at least one sensor acoustic emissions emitted by the tubing durin... | 05/18/2006 |
| 20050284226 | Vibration information transmission apparatus and vibration monitoring/analyzing system A vibration information transmission apparatus for improving efficiency of field wiring of a vibration monitoring/analyzing system includes transmitters (11-1 to n) for converting vibration information from vibration sensors (2-1 to n) for de... | 12/29/2005 |
| 20050231350 | Method and system for generating automatic alarms based on trends detected in machine operation A method to detect a change in a condition of a system including: sensing the condition of the system and capturing data values indicative of the sensed condition; periodically determining a difference between a first data value and a second data value; determining a ch... | 10/20/2005 |
