Thermometric measurement by meshing of probes, particularly in turbine engines

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11125630-B2
Application number	US-201816489162-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 28, 2018
Priority date	Feb 28, 2017
Publication date	Sep 21, 2021
Grant date	Sep 21, 2021

Abstract

The invention relates to a temperature measurement device comprising at least three probes, a computer, the computer being configured to estimate a temperature on the basis of voltage measurements at the output of the probes, characterised in that the probes are connected together in a plurality of meshes mounted in series, with at least one mesh comprising at least two probes mounted in parallel and at least one other mesh comprising a probe or a plurality of probes mounted in parallel.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A temperature measurement device including at least three temperature probes, a computer, the computer being configured to estimate a temperature on a basis of voltage measurements at an output of the temperature probes, wherein the temperature probes are connected to one another in a plurality of lattices assembled in series, at least one lattice including at least two temperature probes assembled in parallel and at least one other lattice including another temperature probe or a plurality of other temperature probes assembled in parallel.

2. The temperature measurement device according to claim 1 , wherein at least one temperature probe includes a plurality of thermocouples.

3. The temperature measurement device according to claim 2 , including a plurality of temperature probes each comprising at least two thermocouples, the thermocouples of the temperature probes being connected to one another to define two measurement paths, each measurement path including a plurality of lattices assembled in series, in which
i. at least one lattice includes at least two temperature probes assembled in parallel; and
ii. at least one other lattice includes one temperature probe or a plurality of temperature probes assembled in parallel; the wiring of the measurement paths being configured so that at least one temperature probe comprises a thermocouple assembled in a first lattice on one measurement path and a second thermocouple assembled in a second lattice on the other measurement path.

4. A temperature measurement device as defined by claim 1 , wherein at least one temperature probe is a thermocouple.

5. The temperature measurement device according to claim 4 , including at least two thermocouples assembled in parallel and cold welds on conductors of a same type of thermoelectric couples of the two thermocouples are connected in an equipotential manner, the two thermocouples thus having a same potential difference.

6. The temperature measurement device according to claim 4 , wherein two lattices in series each include at least one thermocouple, a first thermocouple and a second thermocouple of said lattices being assembled in series, and wherein a cold weld between a connecting conductor and a conductor of a first type of a thermoelectric couple of the first thermocouple is connected in an equipotential manner to another cold weld between a connecting conductor and a conductor of a second type of a thermoelectric couple of the second thermocouple, so as to add electromotive forces of the first and second thermocouples.

7. The temperature measurement device according to claim 6 , wherein the cold welds of the thermocouples of the plurality of lattices are contained in an isothermal connection housing.

8. An industrial machine including at least one temperature measurement device as defined in claim 1 .

9. A turbine engine including at least one temperature measurement device as defined in claim 1 .

Assignees

• Safran Helicopter Engines

Inventors

• Samson Rafaël
• Moutaux Antoine Pascal

Classifications

• G01K7/021 Primary

  Particular circuit arrangements (G01K7/026, G01K7/12, G01K7/14 take precedence) · CPC title

• G01K2205/00

  Application of thermometers in motors, e.g. of a vehicle · CPC title

• G01K7/026

  Arrangements for signalling failure or disconnection of thermocouples · CPC title

• G01K2213/00

  Temperature mapping · CPC title

• G01K13/024

  of moving gases · CPC title