Apparatus and method for determining shaft speed of a motor

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6449567
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09181149

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Briefly stated the motor speed monitor includes a method of determining a shaft speed of a motor by using an electrical signature of the motor. The method includes: (a) sensing an electrical current supplied to the motor to generate a current sensor output signal for at least one electrical phase of the motor; (b) demodulating the current sensor output signal for a predetermined time interval to obtain an instantaneous amplitude of the electrical current signal; (c) generating a frequency spectrum of the instantaneous current amplitude; (d) finding at least one spectral peak of the instantaneous current amplitude frequency spectrum within a predetermined shaft frequency sideband range; (e) estimating a shaft frequency from the at least one spectral peak and converting the shaft frequency to shaft speed.

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CRANE NUCLEAR INC2825 COBB INTERNATIONAL BOULEVARD KENNESAW GA 30152

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Desai, Binish P Secane, PA 3 59
Dowling, Martin J Norristown, PA 15 1286

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