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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 14, 1998
Hung-Tzaw Hu, Saratoga, CA (US);
Claud Hagart-Alexander, Vancouver, CA;
Lee Chase, Los Gatos, CA (US);
John D Goss, San Jose, CA (US);
David Watson, Etobicoke, CA;
Honeywell-Measurex Corporation, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method of providing on-line turbulence measurements in a sheetmaking machine and using these measurements to perform on-line adjustments to turbulence-inducing and adjusting elements in the sheetmaking machine to optimize final sheet product quality. Turbulence measurements are obtained using water weight sensors in the wet-end of the sheetmaking machine and specifically under wire water weight measurements. Water weight readings are correlated to turbulence intensity levels by correlating ranges of water weights to intensity level intervals. A turbulence processing sensor sorts accumulated water weight measurement readings into intensity level intervals to obtain turbulence measurements or a turbulence profile. The turbulence measurements or profile is provided to a machine element controller which uses the measured turbulence information and target turbulence information to generate control signals. The water weight sensors can obtain independent machine direction (MD) and cross direction (CD) water weight measurements and consequently independent turbulence measurements can be determined so that turbulence can be controlled in both directions. Machine elements are controlled so that turbulence remains uniform across the CD and so that the MD turbulence profile is optimized to resemble a target profile.