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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 1987
Filed:
Jun. 28, 1985
Charles E Thomas, Scotia, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A Machine Tool Monitor detects the sudden increase in vibration signal level when a slowly advancing cutting tool first touches the workpiece. The delay to a tool touch decision is reduced while still avoiding false alarms on high amplitude single-peaked and multi-peaked noise spikes. Samples of the preprocessed analog vibration signal that are above a low threshold level are analyzed by digital tool touch detection logic. The signal slope polarity is determined by comparison of a new sample to the tracking mean, or by sample-to-sample amplitude comparisons, and presented to an up/down counter. A tool touch alarm is generated when the positive slope counts exceed the negative slope counts by a preset number slightly greater than occur in a time period from the start of a noise spike until its peak amplitude is passed.