Wire rope inspection system and wire rope inspection method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11772935-B2
Application number	US-202017609292-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 7, 2020
Priority date	Jun 5, 2019
Publication date	Oct 3, 2023
Grant date	Oct 3, 2023

Abstract

This wire rope inspection system ( 100 ) is provided with a control unit ( 21 ) for performing control to inspect a status of a wire rope ( 101 ) based on first measurement data ( 201 a ) and second measurement data ( 201 b ) that differ in the measurement date and time. The control unit is configured to align a waveform of first measurement data and a waveform of second measurement data such that an inspection operation start point of the elevator of the first measurement data and an inspection operation start point of the elevator of the second measurement data coincide with each other.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A wire rope inspection system comprising:
a detection coil configured to detect a change in a magnetic field of a wire rope for driving an elevator: and
a control unit configured to perform control to inspect a state of the wire rope based on first measurement data and second measurement data acquired by the detection coil at a time of an inspection operation of the elevator and before an inspection operation start of the elevator, the first measurement data and the second measurement data being different in measurement date and time from each other,
wherein the control unit is configured to
extract an inspection operation start point of the elevator from each of the first measurement data and the second measurement data, and
align waveforms of the first measurement data and the second measurement data such that an inspection operation start point of the elevator of the extracted first measurement data and an inspection operation start point of the elevator of the extracted second measurement data coincide with each other,

wherein the first measurement data and the second measurement data include both data in a section with a flat waveform before the inspection operation start of the elevator and data in an operation section after the inspection operation start of the elevator,
wherein the control unit is configured to perform control to extract a change start point of a measurement value from the section before the inspection operation start of the elevator to the operation section after the inspection operation start of the elevator as the inspection operation start point of the elevator,
wherein the control unit is configured to perform control to acquire a standard deviation indicating fluctuations of the measurement value in the section before the inspection operation start of the elevator, based on the measurement value in the section before the inspection operation start of the elevator, and determine the change start point of the measurement value by considering the acquired standard deviation, and
wherein the control unit is configured to perform control to acquire a threshold for determining the change start point of the measurement value, based on the standard deviation, and determine a point at which the measurement value has exceeded the threshold, as the change start point of the measurement value.

2. The wire rope inspection system as recited in claim 1 ,
wherein the control unit is configured to perform control to determine a start point of a section in which the measurement value has continuously exceeded the threshold, as the change start point of the measurement value.

3. The wire rope inspection system as recited in claim 1 ,
wherein the control unit is configured to perform control to adjust a position of the waveform of at least one of the first measurement data and the second measurement data, based on a degree of similarity between the first measurement data and the second measurement data in which the waveforms have been aligned, in a state in which a waveform of the first measurement data and a waveform of the second measurement data have been aligned such that the inspection operation start points thereof coincide with each other.

4. The wire rope inspection system as recited in claim 3 ,
wherein the control unit is configured to perform control to
divide the first measurement data and the second measurement data in which the waveforms have been aligned, into a plurality of divided sections, and
adjust the position of the waveform of at least one of the first measurement data and the second measurement data, based on the degree of similarity, in the divided section.

5. The wire rope inspection system as recited in claim 1 ,
wherein the control unit is configured to perform control to
acquire a difference between the first measurement data and the second measurement data in which the waveforms have been aligned, and
inspect the state of the wire rope, based on the acquired difference.

6. A wire rope inspection method comprising the steps of:
detecting a change in a magnetic field of a wire rope for driving an elevator; and
inspecting a state of the wire rope, based on first measurement data and second measurement data acquired at a time of an inspection operation of the elevator, the first measurement data and the second measurement data being different in measurement date and time from each other,
wherein the step of inspecting the state of the wire rope includes the steps of:
extracting an inspection operation start point of the elevator from each of the first measurement data and the second measurement data; and
aligning a waveform of the first measurement data and a waveform of the second measurement data such that an inspection operation start point of the elevator of the extracted first measurement data and an inspection operation start point of the elevator of the extracted second measurement data coincide with each other,
wherein the first measurement data and the second measurement data include data in a section with a flat waveform before an inspection operation start of the elevator,
wherein the step of extracting the inspection operation start point of the elevator includes a step of extracting a change start point of a measurement value from the section before the inspection operation start of the elevator as the inspection operation start point of the elevator,
wherein the step of extracting the inspection operation start point of the elevator includes a step of acquiring a standard deviation indicating fluctuations of the measurement value in the section before the inspection operation start of the elevator, based on the measurement value in the section before the inspection operation start of the elevator, and determining the change start point of the measurement value by considering the acquired standard deviation, and
wherein the step of extracting the inspection operation start point of the elevator includes a step of acquiring a threshold for determining the change start point of the measurement value, based on the standard deviation, and determining a point at which the measurement value has exceeded the threshold, as the change start point of the measurement value.

Assignees

• Shimadzu Corp

Inventors

• Ito Yasunobu
• Ushio Wataru
• Yamaoka Nobuyuki

Classifications

• B66B7/123 Primary

  by analysing magnetic variables · CPC title

• G01N27/83

  by investigating stray magnetic fields · CPC title