Method and system for detecting bend in rotating shaft of magnetic bearing

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10746527-B2
Application number	US-201615778526-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 20, 2016
Priority date	Nov 27, 2015
Publication date	Aug 18, 2020
Grant date	Aug 18, 2020

Abstract

Provided are a method and a system for detecting bend in the rotating shaft of magnetic bearing. The system comprises a first displacement sensor, a second displacement sensor, and a processor electrically connected with the first displacement sensor and the second displacement sensor; the processor comprises a calculating unit, a first judging unit and a second judging unit; the calculating unit is configured to calculate center positions of the rotating shaft stopping at different positions during rotating a circle; the first judging unit judges whether the rotating shaft is bent or not according to a curve of the changed center positions, and outputs a test result of qualification if the rotating shaft is not bent. Users are able to determine whether the rotating shaft needs to be processed or not, to avoid causing destructive effects on the magnetic bearing system due to excessive bend degree of the rotating shaft.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for detecting bending in a rotating shaft of a magnetic bearing, characterized by comprising at least one first displacement sensor disposed on one side of the rotating shaft, at least one second displacement sensor disposed on an opposite side of the rotating shaft, and a processor electrically connected with the first displacement sensor and the second displacement sensor;
the first displacement sensor is configured to measure a relative displacement between the rotating shaft and the first displacement sensor;
the second displacement sensor is configured to measure a relative displacement between the rotating shaft and the second displacement sensor;
the processor comprises a calculating unit, a first judging unit and a second judging unit;
the calculating unit is configured to calculate center positions of the rotating shaft stopping at different positions during rotation of the rotating shaft;
the first judging unit is configured to judge whether the rotating shaft is bent or not according to a curve of changed center positions, output a first test result of qualification if the rotating shaft is not bent, and send an instruction to the second judging unit if the rotating shaft is bent;
the second judging unit is configured to after receiving the instruction, output a second test result of qualification of the rotating shaft if a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of the center positions is less than a threshold value, and output a test result of disqualification of the rotating shaft if the difference is greater than or equal to the threshold value.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein, when the rotating shaft stops at a position during the rotation of the rotating shaft, the rotating shaft is moved to a position of the first displacement sensor by the magnetic bearing, so that the first displacement sensor generates a minimum value of a displacement signal and transmits the minimum value of the displacement signal to the calculating unit of the processor;
then, the rotating shaft is moved by the magnetic bearing from the position of the first displacement sensor to a position of the second displacement sensor, so that the first displacement sensor generates a maximum value of a displacement signal and transmits the maximum value of the displacement signal to the calculating unit;
the calculating unit calculates the center position of the rotating shaft according to the maximum value and the minimum value of the displacement signal.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein, the first judging unit judges whether the rotating shaft is bent or not through judging whether the curve of the changed center positions is a straight line or not, wherein,
if the curve of the changed center positions is a straight line, then the rotating shaft is not bent; and,
if the curve of the changed center positions is not a straight line, then the rotating shaft is bent.

4. The system of claim 2 , wherein, the first judging unit judges whether the rotating shaft is bent or not through judging whether the curve of the changed center positions is a sine curve or not, wherein,
if the curve of the changed center positions is a sine curve, then the rotating shaft is bent; and,
if the curve of the changed center positions is not a sine curve, then the rotating shaft is not bent.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein, the first displacement sensor and the second displacement sensor are eddy current displacement sensors.

6. A method for detecting bending in a rotating shaft of a magnetic bearing, characterized by being applied to the system for detecting bending in the rotating shaft of the magnetic bearing of claim 1 ;
the method comprising: calculating center positions of the rotating shaft stopping at different positions during rotating a circle;
judging whether the rotating shaft is bent or not according to the curve of the changed center positions; wherein,
if the rotating shaft is not bent, then determining that the rotating shaft is qualified; and
if the rotating shaft is bent, and if the difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of the center positions is less than the threshold, then determining that the rotating shaft is qualified; and
if the rotating shaft is bent, and if the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value of the center positions is greater than or equal to the threshold, then determining that the rotating shaft is unqualified.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the step of calculating the center positions of the rotating shaft stopping at different positions during rotation of the rotating shaft comprises:
when the rotating shaft stops at a position during the rotation of the rotating shaft, moving the rotating shaft to a position of the first displacement sensor, to obtain the minimum value of the displacement signal;
then, moving the rotating shaft from the position of the first displacement sensor to a position of the second displacement sensor, to obtain the maximum value of the displacement signal; and
calculating the center position of the rotating shaft according to the maximum value of the displacement signal and the minimum value of the displacement signal.

8. The method of claim 6 , wherein the step of judging whether the rotating shaft is bent or not according to the curve of the changed center positions comprises:
judging whether the curve is a straight line, wherein,
if the curve is a straight line, then the rotating shaft is not bent; and
if the curve is not a straight line, then the rotating shaft is bent.

9. The method of claim 6 , wherein,
the step of judging whether the rotating shaft is bent or not according to the curve of the changed center positions comprises:
judging whether the curve is a sine curve, wherein,
if the curve is a sine curve, then the rotating shaft is bent; and
if the curve is not a sine curve, then the rotating shaft is not bent.

Assignees

• Gree Electric Appliances Inc Zhuhai

Inventors

• Hu Yusheng
• Guo Weilin
• Hu Daofu
• He Yongling
• Yang Bin

Classifications

• G01B7/282 Primary

  for measuring roundness · CPC title

• G01B7/312

  for measuring eccentricity, i.e. lateral shift between two parallel axes · CPC title

• G01B7/31 Primary

  for testing the alignment of axes · CPC title

• G01M13/04

  Bearings · CPC title