Diagnostic method for an evolutionary process

Patent 5511004 Issued on April 23, 1996. Estimated Expiration Date:

February 1, 2014. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Thomson-CSF

Application

No. 182153 filed on 02/01/1994

US Classes:

702/183, Diagnostic analysis706/904, Manufacturing or machine (e.g., agricultural machinery, machine tool)706/912Manufacturing or machine (e.g., agricultural machinery, machine tool)

Examiners

Primary: Voeltz, Emanuel T.
Assistant: Kemper, Melanie A.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt

International Classes

G01D 001/14
G05B 023/02

Foreign Application Priority Data

1992-06-03 FR

Abstract

The method of the invention establishes a reference state and a current state for an industrial evolutionary process from physical parameters measured on all the equipment items employing the evaluating process. These two states are compared, parameter by parameter, by resorting to fuzzy logic for classifying the quantities, and a diagnosis is established using expert rules.