公开(公告)号：US20090261811A1

公开(公告)日：2009-10-22

申请号：US12105951

申请日：2008-04-18

申请人： Grant A. Gordon

发明人： Grant A. Gordon

IPC分类号： B64D15/20

CPC分类号： B64D15/22

摘要： An apparatus for detecting the presence of ice includes a sensory circuit including a sensor operable to be coupled to a surface exposed to moisture. The sensory circuit is operable to create an electromagnetic standing wave. A heating element is coupled to the surface and a first transmission line. A first source is coupled to the first transmission line and is operable to inject a driving signal into the first transmission line, the driving signal being operable to drive the heating element. A mixing element is coupled to the sensory circuit and first transmission line and is operable to produce a mixed signal from the driving signal and a measure of the standing wave. A comparator is operable to compare at least one characteristic of the mixed signal with reference data for determining the presence of ice contacting the sensor.

摘要翻译： 用于检测冰的存在的装置包括感觉电路，其包括可操作以耦合到暴露于湿气的表面的传感器。 感觉电路可操作以产生电磁驻波。 加热元件连接到表面和第一传输线。 第一源耦合到第一传输线并且可操作以将驱动信号注入到第一传输线中，该驱动信号可操作以驱动加热元件。 混合元件耦合到感觉电路和第一传输线，并且可操作以从驱动信号和驻波的测量产生混合信号。 比较器可操作以将混合信号的至少一个特征与用于确定接触传感器的冰的存在的参考数据进行比较。

公开(公告)号：US07267008B2

公开(公告)日：2007-09-11

申请号：US11046259

申请日：2005-01-28

申请人： Grant A. Gordon ,  Nicholas Wilt

发明人： Grant A. Gordon ,  Nicholas Wilt

IPC分类号： G01N29/12 ,  G01N29/14 ,  G01N1/00

CPC分类号： G01N29/343 ,  G01N29/041 ,  G01N29/36 ,  G01N2291/0427 ,  G01N2291/101 ,  G01N2291/2694

摘要： A transducer for use in a structural health monitoring system includes a single transducer element. The transducer includes a transmit assembly coupled to the single transducer element. This assembly is configured to produce a multi-cycle square wave drive signal for stimulating the transducer. Additionally, a transmit/receive switch coupled to the single transducer element is provided. This assembly is configured to isolate the drive signal from the receive assembly used to sense the electrical signal generated from any received elastic waves.

摘要翻译： 用于结构健康监测系统的换能器包括单个换能器元件。 换能器包括耦合到单个换能器元件的发射组件。 该组件被配置为产生用于刺激换能器的多周期方波驱动信号。 另外，提供耦合到单个换能器元件的发射/接收开关。 该组件被配置为将来自用于感测从任何接收的弹性波产生的电信号的接收组件的驱动信号隔离开。

公开(公告)号：US07103507B2

公开(公告)日：2006-09-05

申请号：US10952995

申请日：2004-09-28

申请人： Dimitry Gorinevsky ,  Grant A. Gordon ,  Joseph Nutaro

发明人： Dimitry Gorinevsky ,  Grant A. Gordon ,  Joseph Nutaro

IPC分类号： G06F11/30 ,  G01B3/44

CPC分类号： G05B23/0213 ,  G05B23/0283

摘要： A structure health monitoring (“SHM”) system according to the invention can be deployed in an onboard environment, such as an aircraft, to provide an ongoing damage assessment of structural components on the aircraft. The SHM system reduces or eliminates time consuming and costly manual inspections of aircraft. The SHM system can leverage known sensor technologies to collect sensor data indicative of the structural health of the monitored components. The sensor data is processed and baselined with sensor feature baselines and damage estimate baselines to provide an accurate final damage estimate for the monitored component. The final damage estimate can be further processed or formatted for compatibility with aircraft maintenance systems.

摘要翻译： 根据本发明的结构健康监测（“SHM”）系统可以部署在诸如飞行器的车载环境中，以对飞机上的结构部件进行持续的损坏评估。 SHM系统减少或消除飞机耗时和昂贵的手动检查。 SHM系统可以利用已知的传感器技术来收集指示被监测部件的结构健康的传感器数据。 对传感器数据进行处理，并使用传感器特征基线和损伤估计基线进行基准测量，以便为受监视的部件提供准确的最终损伤估计。 可以对飞机维修系统进行进一步处理或格式化最终的损坏估计。

公开(公告)号：US07376519B2

公开(公告)日：2008-05-20

申请号：US10976712

申请日：2004-10-29

申请人： Brent A. Morin ,  Grant A. Gordon ,  Joseph J. Nutaro ,  Steven R. Thompson

发明人： Brent A. Morin ,  Grant A. Gordon ,  Joseph J. Nutaro ,  Steven R. Thompson

IPC分类号： G01B5/28 ,  G01B5/30

CPC分类号： G01N29/11 ,  G01N29/043 ,  G01N29/4427 ,  G01N2203/0073 ,  G01N2291/0258 ,  G01N2291/0427 ,  G01N2291/0428 ,  G01N2291/048 ,  G01N2291/106 ,  G01N2291/2694

摘要： A method for determining damage in a structural health monitoring system comprising a plurality of sensors distributed across a structure is disclosed. The method includes decomposing the plurality of sensors into a plurality of sub-arrays. Each sub-array is associated with a current sensor. For each sub-array, data is collected, the data corresponding to electrical signals produced by waves initiated by the current sensor and detected by a receiving sensor. The data is used to calculate a damage measurement for the sub-array. Then, the damage measurement determined for each sub-array is combined to determining an overall damage assessment from the combined damage measurements.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种用于确定包括分布在结构上的多个传感器的结构健康监测系统中的损伤的方法。 该方法包括将多个传感器分解为多个子阵列。 每个子阵列与电流传感器相关联。 对于每个子阵列，收集数据，数据对应于由电流传感器发起并由接收传感器检测的波产生的电信号。 数据用于计算子阵列的损伤测量。 然后，将每个子阵列确定的损伤测量结合起来，以从组合的损伤测量中确定总体损伤评估。

公开(公告)号：US07366627B2

公开(公告)日：2008-04-29

申请号：US11142038

申请日：2005-05-31

申请人： Grant A. Gordon ,  Nicholas J. Wilt ,  Joseph J. Nutaro

发明人： Grant A. Gordon ,  Nicholas J. Wilt ,  Joseph J. Nutaro

IPC分类号： G06F19/00

CPC分类号： G01M5/00 ,  G01N35/00693 ,  G01N35/00712

摘要： A method is disclosed wherein a plurality of sensors mounted on a structure, a baseline data set for each of the plurality of sensors and a calibration procedure verify the integrity of a structural health management system. Initially a baseline data set is established. Before performing the structural health assessment a calibration-in data set for each of the plurality of sensors is collected. The calibration-in data set is compared to the baseline data set for each sensor of the plurality of sensors. If the calibration-in data set and the baseline data set match then a structure characterization is performed. If the calibration-in data set and the baseline data set do not match, a calibration-out procedure is performed to generate a calibration-out data set. If the calibration-out data set and the calibration-in data sets match, then a determination is made that the structural health management system was working.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种方法，其中安装在结构上的多个传感器，用于多个传感器中的每一个的基准数据集和校准过程来验证结构健康管理系统的完整性。 最初建立了一个基准数据集。 在执行结构健康评估之前，收集多个传感器中的每一个的校准数据集。 将校准数据集与多个传感器中的每个传感器的基准数据集进行比较。 如果校准数据集和基线数据集匹配，则执行结构表征。 如果校准数据集和基线数据集不匹配，则执行校准退出过程以生成校准数据集。 如果校准数据组和校准数据组匹配，则确定结构健康管理系统正在工作。

公开(公告)号：US07246514B2

公开(公告)日：2007-07-24

申请号：US10976725

申请日：2004-10-29

申请人： Grant A. Gordon ,  Joseph Nutaro ,  Steven R. Thompson

发明人： Grant A. Gordon ,  Joseph Nutaro ,  Steven R. Thompson

IPC分类号： G01M1/14

CPC分类号： G01N29/223 ,  G01N29/07 ,  G01N29/11 ,  G01N2291/0231 ,  G01N2291/0427 ,  G01N2291/0428 ,  G01N2291/106 ,  G01N2291/2694

摘要： In the present invention, a method is provided for installing and locating a plurality of sensors distributed on a structure as part of a structural health monitoring system. The method includes verifying the proper installation of the plurality of sensors and determining the location of the plurality of sensors. In one aspect of the present invention, the step of verifying the proper installation further comprises verifying that each of the plurality of sensors are properly coupled to a sensor data collector and verifying that each of the plurality of sensors are installed in a proper location. In another aspect of the present invention, the step of determining the location of the plurality of sensors further comprises determining the positioning of each sensor in reference to fixed structures in the structure.

摘要翻译： 在本发明中，提供了一种用于安装和定位分布在结构上的多个传感器作为结构健康监测系统的一部分的方法。 该方法包括验证多个传感器的正确安装并确定多个传感器的位置。 在本发明的一个方面，验证适当安装的步骤还包括验证多个传感器中的每一个是否适当地耦合到传感器数据收集器并且验证多个传感器中的每一个安装在适当的位置。 在本发明的另一方面，确定多个传感器的位置的步骤还包括参考结构中的固定结构确定每个传感器的位置。

公开(公告)号：US20110257900A1

公开(公告)日：2011-10-20

申请号：US13120218

申请日：2009-09-22

申请人： Douglas E. Adams ,  Tiffany Lynn Di Petta ,  David Joseph Koester ,  Grant A. Gordon

发明人： Douglas E. Adams ,  Tiffany Lynn Di Petta ,  David Joseph Koester ,  Grant A. Gordon

IPC分类号： G06F19/00 ,  G01M17/007

CPC分类号： G01M17/04

摘要： A rubber cleat is instrumented with two triaxial accelerometers to measure the multi-directional response of the cleat due to the forces within the tire footprint of a ground vehicle. The cleat data is used to detect faults in the front and rear suspension in addition to the wheel tire despite variability in the data. This offboard diagnostic technique is proposed to enable condition-based maintenance.

摘要翻译： 橡胶防滑钉用两个三轴加速度计装备，以测量由于地面车辆的轮胎足迹内的力而导致的防滑板的多方向响应。 即使数据有变化，除了轮胎轮胎之外，防滑板数据也用于检测前悬挂和后悬架的故障。 提出了这种外部诊断技术来实现基于条件的维护。

公开(公告)号：US07783433B2

公开(公告)日：2010-08-24

申请号：US11880450

申请日：2007-07-21

申请人： Grant A. Gordon ,  Radek Hedl

发明人： Grant A. Gordon ,  Radek Hedl

IPC分类号： G01B5/28

CPC分类号： G01N29/069 ,  G01N29/42 ,  G01N29/4463 ,  G01N29/52 ,  G01N2291/0427 ,  G01S15/8977 ,  G01S15/8997 ,  G06T5/002 ,  G06T5/003 ,  G06T7/10 ,  G06T2207/10132 ,  G06T2207/20036 ,  G06T2207/30164

摘要： A system, method and computer program product is provided for automated defect detection of corrosion or cracks using synthetic aperture focusing technique (SAFT) processed Lamb wave images. The method comprises processing the first image using a synthetic aperture focusing technique (SAFT) to enhance a resolution and a signal to noise ratio of a first extracted ultrasonic image, applying a systemic background noise suppression algorithm to the first extracted ultrasonic image to render a second extracted ultrasonic image having reduced noise, and applying a deconvolution linear filtering process to the second extracted ultrasonic image to render a third extracted ultrasonic image.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种系统，方法和计算机程序产品，用于使用合成孔径聚焦技术（SAFT）处理的兰姆波图像来自动化缺陷检测腐蚀或裂纹。 该方法包括使用合成孔径聚焦技术（SAFT）处理第一图像以增强第一提取的超声波图像的分辨率和信噪比，将第一提取的超声波图像应用于系统背景噪声抑制算法以呈现第二图像 提取具有降低的噪声的超声波图像，以及对第二提取的超声波图像应用去卷积线性滤波处理，以渲染第三提取的超声波图像。

公开(公告)号：US07775482B2

公开(公告)日：2010-08-17

申请号：US12105951

申请日：2008-04-18

申请人： Grant A. Gordon

发明人： Grant A. Gordon

IPC分类号： B64D15/20 ,  G08B19/02

CPC分类号： B64D15/22

摘要： An apparatus for detecting the presence of ice includes a sensory circuit including a sensor operable to be coupled to a surface exposed to moisture. The sensory circuit is operable to create an electromagnetic standing wave. A heating element is coupled to the surface and a first transmission line. A first source is coupled to the first transmission line and is operable to inject a driving signal into the first transmission line, the driving signal being operable to drive the heating element. A mixing element is coupled to the sensory circuit and first transmission line and is operable to produce a mixed signal from the driving signal and a measure of the standing wave. A comparator is operable to compare at least one characteristic of the mixed signal with reference data for determining the presence of ice contacting the sensor.

摘要翻译： 用于检测冰的存在的装置包括感觉电路，其包括可操作以耦合到暴露于湿气的表面的传感器。 感觉电路可操作以产生电磁驻波。 加热元件连接到表面和第一传输线。 第一源耦合到第一传输线并且可操作以将驱动信号注入到第一传输线中，该驱动信号可操作以驱动加热元件。 混合元件耦合到感觉电路和第一传输线，并且可操作以从驱动信号和驻波的测量产生混合信号。 比较器可操作以将混合信号的至少一个特征与用于确定接触传感器的冰的存在的参考数据进行比较。

公开(公告)号：US07660690B2

公开(公告)日：2010-02-09

申请号：US11776288

申请日：2007-07-11

申请人： Grant A. Gordon ,  Joseph Nutaro ,  Steven R. Thompson

发明人： Grant A. Gordon ,  Joseph Nutaro ,  Steven R. Thompson

IPC分类号： G01C25/00

CPC分类号： G01N29/223 ,  G01N29/07 ,  G01N29/11 ,  G01N2291/0231 ,  G01N2291/0427 ,  G01N2291/0428 ,  G01N2291/106 ,  G01N2291/2694

摘要： In the present invention, a method is provided for installing and locating a plurality of sensors distributed on a structure as part of a structural health monitoring system. The method includes verifying the proper installation of the plurality of sensors and determining the location of the plurality of sensors. In one aspect of the present invention, the step of verifying the proper installation further comprises verifying that each of the plurality of sensors are properly coupled to a sensor data collector and verifying that each of the plurality of sensors are installed in a proper location. In another aspect of the present invention, the step of determining the location of the plurality of sensors further comprises determining the positioning of each sensor in reference to fixed structures in the structure.

摘要翻译： 在本发明中，提供了一种用于安装和定位分布在结构上的多个传感器作为结构健康监测系统的一部分的方法。 该方法包括验证多个传感器的正确安装并确定多个传感器的位置。 在本发明的一个方面，验证适当安装的步骤还包括验证多个传感器中的每一个是否适当地耦合到传感器数据收集器并且验证多个传感器中的每一个安装在适当的位置。 在本发明的另一方面，确定多个传感器的位置的步骤还包括参考结构中的固定结构确定每个传感器的位置。