Signal Processing Device for Rotating Machine Vibration Diagnosis

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Solution Overview

Problem

In vibration diagnosis of rotating machines, existing methods struggle to accurately analyze signal components that are not synchronized with the rotation pulse signal, leading to reduced diagnostic effectiveness.

Innovation Solution

A signal processing method that generates analysis object data and performs product-sum operation processing on template data and analysis object data while shifting phases, allowing for synchronous timing detection even when the signal component is not initially synchronized, using a signal processing device with specific circuits for data generation, product-sum operation, and synchronous timing detection.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If a vibration time waveform is obtained using a rotation pulse signal as an absolute reference, then synchronous vibration waveform components can be extracted, but signal components not synchronized with the rotation pulse signal are reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveextraction accuracy of synchronous signal componentsVSAvoidsignal component reduction
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the vibration signal analysis by creating multiple analysis object data sets with different phase relationships. Instead of using a single rotation pulse reference, the system divides the analysis into multiple segments (first analysis object data, second analysis object data, etc.) each processed with different phase shifts, allowing comprehensive capture of both synchronous and non-synchronous signal components

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent performs preliminary phase shifting operations on the analysis object data before conducting the product-sum operation. By pre-shifting the phase of the analysis object data to match the template data, the system ensures that signal components regardless of their original phase relationship with the rotation pulse can be properly aligned and extracted during the correlation analysis

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If template data is made shorter to improve processing efficiency, then processing speed increases, but detection accuracy of synchronous timing may be affected

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprocessing efficiencyVSAvoidsynchronous timing detection accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent optimizes the template data length parameter to achieve an optimal balance between processing efficiency and detection accuracy. By carefully selecting the template length to be shorter than the analysis object data while maintaining sufficient correlation information, the system improves computational speed without significantly compromising the ability to accurately detect synchronous timing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Measurement precision

If product-sum operation is performed with phase shifting to detect synchronous timing, then detection accuracy improves, but computational complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesynchronous timing detection accuracyVSAvoidcomputational complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies partial phase shifting operations rather than exhaustive analysis of all possible phases. By performing product-sum operations with selective phase shifts on the analysis object data, the system achieves sufficient detection accuracy without the computational burden of analyzing every possible phase relationship, thus reducing overall computational complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS20240329931A1Signal Processing Method And Signal Processing Device
Publication Date: 2024.10.03 SEIKO EPSON CORP
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AI summary

A signal processing method includes: an analysis object data generation step of generating i-th analysis object data based on time-series data of a physical quantity detected by an i-th sensor; a product-sum operation step of generating product-sum operation data of template data including a signal component to be analyzed and M-th analysis object data; and a synchronous-timing detection step of detecting a synchronous timing, which is timing synchronizing with the signal component, based on the product-sum operation data. The template data is shorter than the M-th analysis object data, and a sampling rate of the M-th analysis object data is equal to a sampling rate of the template data.