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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
John Erik Hershey, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Brock Estel Osborn, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Kati Illouz, Albany, NY (US);
Gerald Burt Kliman, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 1/101 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 1/101 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for estimating the time to failure acceleration factor of a large industrial motor includes a sensor, a clock for controlling sensor sampling times, and a memory address calculator for mapping output signals of the sensor to a memory address. A unit is provided for incrementing the content of a specified memory address by unity.