Measuring and testing – Rotor unbalance – Propeller – impeller – or fluid coupling
Patent
1983-01-12
1985-04-30
Gill, James J.
Measuring and testing
Rotor unbalance
Propeller, impeller, or fluid coupling
73457, 73462, G01M 122
Patent
active
045136190
ABSTRACT:
Asymmetries of rotatable members such as aircraft propellers can be balanced out by the careful addition of counterweights at proper positions on the members. An accelerometer coupled to the mounting of an unbalanced rotating member produces a signal containing a component indicative of the unbalance. This signal would be useful for helping in the balancing process but it may also contain noise components from which the useful component has to be extracted without too much alteration. A fixed frequency band-pass filter could be used but the results then have to be manually corrected if the actual frequency varies from that associated with the filter or a manually turnable filter could be used but then of course the filter has to be tuned for each test. Herein there is proposed the extraction from the accelerometer signal (A) of respective signals indicative of quadrature components of the useful part of the accelerometer signal by multiplying the accelerometer signal with respective rotatable member position indicative signals (P, Q) derived by a phase-locked loop arrangement (9, 10 and 11).
REFERENCES:
patent: 2362842 (1944-11-01), Mueller
patent: 3038342 (1962-06-01), Hack
patent: 3678761 (1972-07-01), Blackburn
patent: 4298948 (1981-11-01), Davis
British Aerospace Public Limited Company
Gill James J.
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