Abstract: A graphical user interface for vibration treatment includes control buttons hidden for display of certain screens, and/or a vibration amplitude meter that includes at least one peak amplitude bar and a present amplitude bar extending alongside the at least one peak amplitude bar and graphically coded for an in-range condition and at least one out-of-range condition. Related methods, computer program products, and systems are also disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 1, 2011
Date of Patent:
November 3, 2015
Assignee:
Bonal Technologies, Inc.
Inventors:
Thomas B. Martin, Thomas E. Hebel, August G. Hebel, III
Abstract: A graphical user interface for vibration treatment includes control buttons hidden for display of certain screens, and/or a vibration amplitude meter that includes at least one peak amplitude bar and a present amplitude bar extending alongside the at least one peak amplitude bar and graphically coded for an in-range condition and at least one out-of-range condition. Related methods, computer program products, and systems are also disclosed.
Type:
Application
Filed:
February 1, 2011
Publication date:
August 2, 2012
Applicant:
BONAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventors:
Thomas B. Martin, Thomas E. Hebel, August G. Hebel, III
Abstract: A method of stress relieving metal parts that includes the steps of applying mechanical cyclic vibration energy to a part over a test frequency range while monitoring the damping effects of energy flowing into the part as a function of frequency. A plurality of orders of harmonic vibration absorption peaks are identified, each consisting of a plurality of vibration absorption resonant peaks, employing a vibration transducer having a response that is dampened to distinguish the harmonic peaks from the resonant peaks. A sub-harmonic stress relief frequency is identified as a function of such frequency response and the composition of the part in question, and mechanical cyclic vibration energy is applied to the part for an extended time period at the sub-harmonic frequency so identified.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 14, 1989
Date of Patent:
November 6, 1990
Assignee:
Bonal Technologies, Inc.
Inventors:
August G. Hebel, Jr., August G. Hebel, III