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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2016
Applicant:
Woodward, Inc., Fort Collins, CO (US);
Inventors:
Tena K. Britt, Loveland, CO (US);
Kevin Greeb, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Thomas M Krause, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Craig Mawle, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Assignee:
Woodward, Inc., Fort Collins, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 19/00 (2011.01); F01D 21/00 (2006.01); F01D 17/14 (2006.01); F02C 7/232 (2006.01); G05B 15/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F01D 21/003 (2013.01); F01D 17/14 (2013.01); F02C 7/232 (2013.01); G05B 15/02 (2013.01); F05D 2220/30 (2013.01); F05D 2260/80 (2013.01);
Abstract
Providing wear-related prognostics and diagnostics on a turbine engine includes, while operating a turbine control device, tracking a total device travel distance over time by recurrently: selectively identifying actual device movement based on device position data associated with a displacement sensor monitoring the turbine control device; and accumulating an incremental device travel distance corresponding to the identified actual device movement with the total device travel distance.