公开(公告)号：US20200348250A1

公开(公告)日：2020-11-05

申请号：US16736107

申请日：2020-01-07

Applicant: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company

Inventor： Gary L. Hunter ,  Jonathan Pita ,  Peter W. Jacobs

IPC: G01N27/06 ,  G01N33/28

Abstract: Systems and methods for real-time monitoring of electrical discharge events across a tribological contact are provided. The systems comprise a signal generator, a test device comprising a tribological contact, a reference device and a signal comparator. The systems recognize changes between states where electrical discharge across a tribological contact does or does not occur and produce distinct output signals for each state and, further, may maintain a count of how often such events occur.