Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System for detecting failure location in a pump
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Application No.: US15287416Application Date: 2016-10-06
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Publication No.: US10378537B2Publication Date: 2019-08-13
- Inventor: Yanchai Zhang , Venkata Bhagavathi Dandibhotla , Zhijun Cai , Zhaoxu Dong , Xuefei Hu
- Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
- Applicant Address: US IL Deerfield
- Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
- Current Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Deerfield
- Agency: Miller, Matthias & Hull
- Main IPC: F04B51/00
- IPC: F04B51/00 ; F04B1/00 ; F04B53/10 ; G01M3/26

Abstract:
A method for detecting a leak in a pump comprises: monitoring discharge pressure time domain signals of the pump; monitoring piston position time domain signals for each piston of a plurality of pistons; filtering the monitored discharge pressure time domain signals and the monitored piston position time domain signals of each piston of the plurality of pistons via a band pass filter; determining, at each pump revolution for each piston, a sum of product of the filtered discharge pressure time domain signals and the filtered piston position time domain signals; determine, at each pump revolution for each piston, an absolute value of each sum; determining, at each pump revolution, a largest absolute value of the determined absolute values; determining a corresponding piston of the plurality of pistons associated with the largest absolute value; and determining a cylinder of the pump associated with the determined corresponding piston as leaking.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180100496A1 SYSTEM FOR DETECTING FAILURE LOCATION IN A PUMP Public/Granted day:2018-04-12
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