Fan examination method and fan examination system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10677641-B2
Application number	US-201815867510-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 10, 2018
Priority date	Nov 23, 2017
Publication date	Jun 9, 2020
Grant date	Jun 9, 2020

Abstract

An examination method comprises: generating a received audio signal according to sound generated from rotation of the fan by an audio receiving device; performing Fourier transform on the received audio signal to obtain a reference frequency domain signal; recognizing a plurality of characteristic bands according to the reference frequency domain signal; adjusting the received audio signal according to the characteristic bands respectively to form a plurality of casting audio signals corresponding to frequency components in the characteristic bands respectively; playing the casting signals sequentially by an audio casting device; and recognizing at least one key band among the characteristic bands according to the transmission rate of the hard drive upon playing the casting signals.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An examination method for a fan based on a transmission rate of a hard drive, adapted to an electronic device including the hard drive and a fan, wherein the examination method comprises:
generating a received audio signal according to sound generated from rotation of the fan by an audio receiving device, wherein a distance between the audio receiving device and the hard drive is within a default range while the audio receiving device is receiving the sound generated from rotation of the fan;
performing Fourier transform on the received audio signal to obtain a reference frequency domain signal;
recognizing a plurality of characteristic bands according to the reference frequency domain signal;
adjusting the received audio signal according to the characteristic bands respectively to form a plurality of casting audio signals corresponding to frequency components in the characteristic bands respectively;
playing the casting signals sequentially by an audio casting device, wherein the distance between the audio casting device and the hard drive is within the default range while the audio casting device is playing the casting signals; and
recognizing at least one key band among the characteristic bands according to the transmission rate of the hard drive upon playing the casting signals.

2. The examination method according to claim 1 , wherein the step of adjusting the received audio signal according to the characteristic bands respectively to form the plurality of casting audio signals corresponding to frequency components of the characteristic bands respectively further comprises:
lowering a first frequency component of the received audio signal to generate a first casting signal of the casting signals, the first frequency component is a frequency component in one of the characteristic bands of the receiving audio signal; and
lowering a second frequency component of the received audio signal to generate a second casting signal of the casting signals, the second frequency component is a frequency component in another one of the characteristic bands of the receiving audio signal.

3. The examination method according to claim 2 , wherein the step of playing the casting signals sequentially by an audio casting device and the step of recognizing at least one key band of the characteristic bands according to the transmission rate of the hard drive while the audio casting device is playing the casting signals further comprise:
playing the first casting signal by the audio casting device and measuring a first transmission rate of the hard drive;
playing the second casting signal by the audio casting device and measuring a second transmission rate of the hard drive;
determining which of the first transmission rate and the second transmission rate is higher; and
determining the characteristic band corresponding to the higher one between the first transmission rate and the second transmission rate as the key band.

4. An examination system for a fan, comprises an audio receiving device, an audio casting device and a control device, wherein the control device includes a memory module and a processor, with the memory module electrically connected to the processor, the memory module storing a plurality of instructions and the processor configured to perform the instructions, wherein the examination system is configured to perform the steps in claim 3 , when the processor performs at least one of the instructions.

5. An examination system for a fan, comprises an audio receiving device, an audio casting device and a control device, wherein the control device includes a memory module and a processor, with the memory module electrically connected to the processor, the memory module storing a plurality of instructions and the processor configured to perform the instructions, wherein the examination system is configured to perform the steps in claim 2 , when the processor performs at least one of the instructions.

6. The examination method according to claim 1 , wherein the step of lowering the first frequency component of the received audio signal to generate the first casting signal of the casting signals comprises:
lowering the first frequency component of the reference frequency domain signal to generate a first frequency domain signal; and
performing inverse Fourier transform on the first frequency domain signal to generate the first casting signal.

7. An examination system for a fan, comprises an audio receiving device, an audio casting device and a control device, wherein the control device includes a memory module and a processor, with the memory module electrically connected to the processor, the memory module storing a plurality of instructions and the processor configured to perform the instructions, wherein the examination system is configured to perform the steps in claim 6 , when the processor performs at least one of the instructions.

8. The examination method according to claim 1 , wherein the step of recognizing the plurality of characteristic bands according to the reference frequency domain signal further comprises:
defining the reference frequency domain signal with a plurality of bands;
determining whether the frequency component in any of the bands is larger than a default magnitude threshold; and
defining one of the bands as one of the characteristic bands when the frequency component of the band is determined as being larger than the default magnitude threshold.

9. An examination system for a fan, comprises an audio receiving device, an audio casting device and a control device, wherein the control device includes a memory module and a processor, with the memory module electrically connected to the processor, the memory module storing a plurality of instructions and the processor configured to perform the instructions, wherein the examination system is configured to perform the steps in claim 8 , when the processor performs at least one of the instructions.

10. An examination system for a fan, comprises an audio receiving device, an audio casting device and a control device, wherein the control device includes a memory module and a processor, with the memory module electrically connected to the processor, the memory module storing a plurality of instructions and the processor configured to perform the instructions, wherein the examination system is configured to perform the steps in claim 1 , when the processor performs at least one of the instructions.

Assignees

• Inventec Pudong Tech Corp
• Inventec Corp

Inventors

• Huang Yu-Hsien
• Tsai Tung-Lin
• Hsu Wei-Liang

Classifications

• G11B27/36

  Monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing {(for digital recording G11B20/00 and s.gr.; for monitoring, testing or measuring of TV recorders of the type covered by H04N5/76 and subgroups, see H04N17/06)} · CPC title

• G01N29/42

  by frequency filtering {or by tuning to resonant frequency} · CPC title

• G01H3/08 Primary

  Analysing frequencies present in complex vibrations, e.g. comparing harmonics present {(acoustic presence detection G01V1/001)} · CPC title

• G06F2218/08

  Feature extraction · CPC title

• G06F11/3058 Primary

  Monitoring arrangements for monitoring environmental properties or parameters of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring of power, currents, temperature, humidity, position, vibrations (thermal management in cooling arrangements of a computing system G06F1/206) · CPC title