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Data Processing: Vehicles, Navigation, And Relative Location > Vehicle Control, Guidance, Operation, Or Indication > With Indicator Or Control Of Power Plant (e.g., Performance) > Gas Turbine, Compressor Gas Turbine, CompressorGas Turbine, Compressor patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.10/26/06 - 20060241845 - Dual-architecture microserver card An integrated system for monitoring a deployed product on a movable platform, gathering data about the deployed product, and disseminating the data about the deployed product is disclosed. The system includes a server located on the movable platform capable of communication with the server from a remote location. The server ... 10/19/06 - 20060235599 - Kernel-based fault detection system and method An improved fault detection system and method is provided. The fault detection system and method combines the use of discrimination and representation based feature extraction to reliably detect symptoms of faults in turbine engines. Specifically, the fault detection system and method uses a kernel-based Maximum Representation Discrimination Features (MRDF) technique ... 09/28/06 - 20060217870 - Estimating health parameters or symptoms of a degrading system The present invention is concerned with the estimation of health parameters p(k) representing symptoms of a slowly degrading system, in particular industrial gas turbines. According to the invention, an estimation of a true health or independent parameter vector at time step k uses the estimation of the true health or ... 09/28/06 - 20060217869 - Failsafe electronic engine control system overheat shutdown An aircraft engine control system is configured to implement a failsafe shutdown of a jet engine in the highly unlikely occurrence of an overheat event. The system includes an engine controller that includes a processor and an enable circuit. The processor is rated to operate up to a first temperature ... 08/31/06 - 20060195248 - Fault detection system and method for turbine engine fuel systems A system and method is provided that facilitates improved fault detection. The fault detection system provides the ability to detect symptoms of fault in the fuel system of a turbine engine. The fault detection system captures selected data from the turbine engines that is used to characterize the performance of ... 06/15/06 - 20060129301 - Method and apparatus for assessing gas turbine acceleration capability A method for monitoring performance of a gas turbine engine includes, during acceleration of an engine, accumulating regulator indices from an engine controller and times accumulated on acceleration regulators. At least one engine sensor value is also monitored after reaching a steady state takeoff power. The regulator indices, accumulated times, ... 05/25/06 - 20060111832 - Electronic control module having an internal electric ground An electronic control module for electrical components of a vehicle. The electronic control module has an internal electrical ground. The module comprises a housing having an open end and a side wall extending from the open end. The side wall has a slot formed along the side wall. The module ... 03/02/06 - 20060047403 - System for gas turbine health monitoring data fusion An apparatus for assessing health of a device comprising a data alignment module for receiving a plurality of sensory outputs and outputting a synchronized data stream, an analysis module for receiving the synchronized data stream and outputting at least one device health feature, and a high level diagnostic feature information ... 02/23/06 - 20060041369 - Method of controlling the supercharge in a combustion engine and vehicle having a supercharged combustion engine with electronic control members for controlling the supercharge A vehicle having a combustion engine supercharged by a turbocharger (6) with variable turbine geometry and having electronic control members (3) controlling the supply of fuel and air to the combustion chamber of the engine. The control members are designed, during forward travel of the vehicle, on the basis of ... 02/23/06 - 20060041368 - Systems, methods and computer program products for remote monitoring of turbine combustion dynamics Systems, methods and computer program products enable the remote monitoring of the combustion dynamics of turbines. Remote monitoring permits a single user to continuously monitor the operating health of a fleet of turbines simultaneously from a single location. The user is presented with one or more graphical user interfaces that ... 12/29/05 - 20050288844 - Driving assistance method and system A driving assistance system for regulating an operation of a vehicle in a discrete manner according to different ranges of risk potentials associated with the vehicle, such that different risk potentials in different ranges are conveyed to the driver in a different and discrete manner. The system includes a device ... 12/15/05 - 20050278108 - Methods and apparatus for predicting and/or for avoiding lean blow-outs A method for predicting lean blow-outs (LBOs) in a gas turbine engine includes extracting a plurality of tones in pressure signals representative of pressure within monitored combustor cans, tracking a frequency of a hot tone in each monitored can, and utilizing the extracted tones and the tracked frequency to determine ... 12/01/05 - 20050267667 - Control system for gas-turbine engine In a gas-turbine engine control system having a first control channel inputting the outputs of sensors to calculate and output a first command value indicative of a quantity of fuel to be supplied to the engine and a second control channel inputting the outputs of the sensors to calculate and ... 11/24/05 - 20050261820 - Method of monitoring gas turbine engine operation A system, method and apparatus for monitoring the performance of a gas turbine engine. A counter value Indicative of the comparison between the engine condition and the threshold condition is adjusted. The aircraft operator is warned of an impending maintenance condition based on the counter value and determines an appropriate ... 10/06/05 - 20050222747 - Model-based detection, diagnosis of turbine engine faults A method of monitoring turbine engines used in aircraft from sensor signals from an engine for a predetermined set of engine characteristics. The signals are transmitted to a nonlinear engine model that predicts the output values for the given set of engine characteristics. The model generates residuals by calculating the ... 09/22/05 - 20050209767 - Method for fault diagnosis of a turbine engine A method of diagnosing a turbine engine includes the steps of acquiring engine operating parameters; calculating corresponding engine residual values; computing the mean and the standard deviation of each engine residual value; normalizing dynamically each engine residual value to yield normalized engine residuals; mapping, via a cluster technique mapping, the ... 08/11/05 - 20050177298 - Method of informing pilot of aircraft of spark detected in gas turbine engine A system for detecting spark in an igniter for a gas turbine engine. An igniter generates a plasma, or spark, somewhat similar to an automotive spark plug. In the invention, an inductive pick-up is positioned adjacent the igniter, to detect current pulses in the igniter, to thereby infer the presence ... 07/28/05 - 20050165535 - Valve flow metering control system and method A turbine valve control system is provided. The turbine valve control system includes a variable flow metering device, a first sensor, a second sensor, a third sensor, a fourth sensor, memory, and processing circuitry. The variable flow metering device is capable of meeting a plurality of predetermined mass flow rates ... 06/16/05 - 20050131617 - Data collecting system and data transmitting method A data collecting system includes a data collecting device and plural data processing devices connected to the data collecting device by a cascade connection. For example, each of the data processing devices individually executes an A/D conversion and other data process, and adds data obtained by the data process to ... 06/16/05 - 20050131616 - Turbine mechanical output computation device and gas turbine control device equipped therewith where Pe represents a generator effective power measured by a generator effective power wattmeter, N represents the rotational speed of a gas turbine measured by a gas turbine tachometer, J represents the moment of inertia of the gas turbine, and g represents gravitational acceleration. A combustion air amount controller controls ... // - 2 - ... // - 60 - ... // - 2 - ... 06/02/05 - 20050119818 - Method and computer program for identifying a fault in an engine A method for identifying a fault associated with an individual cylinder of a multicylinder combustion engine, comprising the steps of: accelerating the combustion engine to a first engine speed (L1); interrupting the fuel supply to all cylinders except the individual cylinder, which receives a predetermined amount of fuel supply, when ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |