Patents by Inventor Fernando Dotta
Fernando Dotta has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10149631Abstract: A system and method for damage detection and for evaluating the real operation conditions for structural platforms using structural health monitoring is integrated to a system and method that permits for the platform to provide a flexible geometric control considering a self-adapting morphing which is capable of providing better operating structural platform performance.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2015Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Embraer S.A.Inventors: Paulo Anchieta Da Silva, Tomaz Lazanha, Ricardo Pinheiro Rulli, Fernando Dotta
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Patent number: 10093435Abstract: An integrated system for assessing the condition and management of a structural platform or a plurality of platforms includes a Structural Health Monitoring System (SHM), an Operational loads Monitoring System (OLM), a static, fatigue and damage tolerance analysis (FDTA) subsystem, a databank storing a maintenance plan, and a subsystem configured for damage and repair management (iSRM). The SHM may include a plurality of transducers, including a plurality of pairs of actuators and sensors; a generator device configured to excite at least one of said sensors to produce ultrasonic guided waves; and a signal processor device configured to receive the signals reflected from damage identification. The Operational loads Monitoring System (OLM) may comprise parametric models using flight parameter data. The static, fatigue and damage tolerance analysis (FDTA) subsystem may be configured to use parametric models using Finite element Models results and abacus.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Embraer S.A.Inventors: Paulo Anchieta Da Silva, Fernando Dotta, Ricardo Pinheiro Rulli, Tomaz Lazanha, Marcelo Rosa Suzuki, Laudier Jacques De Moraes Da Costa, Cassio Wallner, Ricardo Rogulski
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Patent number: 10024756Abstract: Structural health monitoring (“SHM”) methods, apparatus and techniques involve building deformation fields maps (amplitude and phase related to excitation) on the surface of the structural component under monitoring based on a network of strain measurements by fiber Bragg grating sensors.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2014Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignees: Embraer S.A., PUC-RIO (Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro)Inventors: Paulo Anchieta Da Silva, Fernando Dotta, Laudier Jacques De Moraes Da Costa, Arhur Martins Barbosa Braga, Luiz Carlos Guedes Valente, Daniel Ramos Louzada, Leonardo Salvini, Paula Medeiros Proença De Gouvêa
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Patent number: 9897533Abstract: An integrated system and method to acquire the health state of a structure identifying the presence of damage, and to self-repair the damage in the considered structure. A sensor network installed in the structure is interrogated by a dedicated hardware for damage detection. In case of damage is detected by the sensor network in the structure, the sensor network is triggered and generates harmonic excitation in the structure. Due to the excitation, the natural frequency of vascular microtubes and/or capsules presented in the structure is reached, promoting their disruption. The vascular microtubes and/or capsules disruption along the damage releases the healing compound, repairing the damaged portion of the structure.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2014Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: Embraer S.A.Inventors: Paulo Anchieta Da Silva, Fernando Dotta, Ricardo Pinheiro Rulli
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Patent number: 9664649Abstract: A method to acquire the structural health state of an aircraft mechanical component performs measurements at each frequency point of interest by using a network of transducers and working each one simultaneously as actuator and sensor. Each transducer is individually excited by a sinusoidal, constant frequency and arbitrary amplitude, voltage waveform for each arbitrary frequency point used to interrogate the structure. A dedicated hardware executes an analogical (analog) quantization to measure electrical current and average electrical power consumed by each transducer. With these two variables, the electromechanical signature of the structure is obtained at different areas of the monitored structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2013Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignees: Embraer S.A., Universidade Federal de UberlândiaInventors: Carlos Alberto Gallo, Domingos Alves Rade, Elias Bitencourt Teodoro, Luiz Gustavo Martins, Marcos Morais de Souza, Roberto Mendes Finzi Neto, Valder Steffen, Jr., Camila Gianini Gonsalez, Glauco Humberto Gomes, Fernando Dotta, Mauricio Hartmann, Paulo Anchieta da Silva, Ricardo Pinheiro Rulli
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Publication number: 20170021918Abstract: A system and method for damage detection and for evaluating the real operation conditions for structural platforms using structural health monitoring is integrated to a system and method that permits for the platform to provide a flexible geometric control considering a self-adapting morphing which is capable of providing better operating structural platform performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2015Publication date: January 26, 2017Inventors: Paulo Anchieta DA SILVA, Tomaz LAZANHA, Ricardo Pinheiro RULLI, Fernando DOTTA
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Patent number: 9553949Abstract: Method and system implemented by a collaborative distributed computational network, and related devices, comprising a plurality of client devices supported by a computational network to cooperatively perform interactive operations in at least one community of practice organized in a hierarchical structure at strategic levels, wherein said method comprises the steps of registering at least one community of practice on the computational network, creating a network of practice; assigning a unique identification code for a device on the network of practice computational network, identifying a user through an unique identification user code; connecting the user to at least one community of network of practice; defining a practice; unfolding the practice in strategic levels of this community of practice; registering the practice on the computational network; locating the practice in organizational or geographical coordinates; registering the localization of practice on the computational network; selecting a templatType: GrantFiled: August 8, 2013Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: SABIA EXPERIENCE TECNOLOGIA S.A.Inventors: Marcelo Ferreira Guimarães, Renato Parenti Turcato, Demetrius Ribeiro Lima, Alexandre Moura Paes De Barros, Caio Vinicius Maia Villela, Adir Pedro Filho, Emanuel Mota Cordioli, George Tavares, Richard Faust, Diego Fernando Dotta Couto
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Publication number: 20160340058Abstract: An integrated system for assessing the condition and management of a structural platform or a plurality of platforms includes a Structural Health Monitoring System (SHM), an Operational loads Monitoring System (OLM), a static, fatigue and damage tolerance analysis (FDTA) subsystem, a databank storing a maintenance plan, and a subsystem configured for damage and repair management (iSRM). The SHM may include a plurality of transducers, including a plurality of pairs of actuators and sensors; a generator device configured to excite at least one of said sensors to produce ultrasonic guided waves; and a signal processor device configured to receive the signals reflected from damage identification. The Operational loads Monitoring System (OLM) may comprise parametric models using flight parameter data. The static, fatigue and damage tolerance analysis (FDTA) subsystem may be configured to use parametric models using Finite element Models results and abacus.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2015Publication date: November 24, 2016Inventors: Paulo Anchieta DA SILVA, Fernando DOTTA, Ricardo Pinheiro RULLI, Tomaz LAZANHA, Marcelo Rosa SUZUKI, Laudier Jacques DE MORAES DA COSTA, Cassio WALLNER, Ricardo ROGULSKI
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Publication number: 20160116366Abstract: Structural health monitoring (“SHM”) methods, apparatus and techniques involve building deformation fields maps (amplitude and phase related to excitation) on the surface of the structural component under monitoring based on a network of strain measurements by fiber Bragg grating sensors.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2014Publication date: April 28, 2016Inventors: Paulo Anchieta DA SILVA, Fernando DOTTA, Laudier Jacques DE MORAES DA COSTA, Arhur Martins Barbosa BRAGA, Luiz Carlos Guedes VALENTE, Daniel Ramos LOUZADA, Leonardo SALVINI, Paula Medeiros Proença DE GOUVÊA
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Publication number: 20150369723Abstract: An integrated system and method to acquire the health state of a structure identifying the presence of damage, and to self-repair the damage in the considered structure. A sensor network installed in the structure is interrogated by a dedicated hardware for damage detection. In case of damage is detected by the sensor network in the structure, the sensor network is triggered and generates harmonic excitation in the structure. Due to the excitation, the natural frequency of vascular microtubes and/or capsules presented in the structure is reached, promoting their disruption. The vascular microtubes and/or capsules disruption along the damage releases the healing compound, repairing the damaged portion of the structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: Paulo Anchieta DA SILVA, Fernando DOTTA, Ricardo Pinheiro RULLI
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Publication number: 20150201038Abstract: Method and system implemented by a collaborative distributed computational network, and related devices, comprising a plurality of client devices supported by a computational network to cooperatively perform interactive operations in at least one community of practice organized in a hierarchical structure at strategic levels, wherein said method comprises the steps of registering at least one community of practice on the computational network, creating a network of practice; assigning a unique identification code for a device on the network of practice computational network, identifying a user through an unique identification user code; connecting the user to at least one community of network of practice; defining a practice; unfolding the practice in strategic levels of this community of practice; registering the practice on the computational network; locating the practice in organizational or geo graphical coordinates; registering the localization of practice on the computational network; selecting a templaType: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2013Publication date: July 16, 2015Inventors: Marcelo Ferreira Guimarães, Renato Parenti Turcato, Demetrius Ribeiro Lima, Alexandre Moura Paes De Barros, Caio Vinícius Maia Villela, Adir Pedro Filho, Emanuel Mota Cordioli, George Tavares, Richard Faust, Diego Fernando Dotta Couto
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Publication number: 20150168353Abstract: A method to acquire the structural health state of an aircraft mechanical component performs measurements at each frequency point of interest by using a network of transducers and working each one simultaneously as actuator and sensor. Each transducer is individually excited by a sinusoidal, constant frequency and arbitrary amplitude, voltage waveform for each arbitrary frequency point used to interrogate the structure. A dedicated hardware executes an analogical (analog) quantization to measure electrical current and average electrical power consumed by each transducer. With these two variables, the electromechanical signature of the structure is obtained at different areas of the monitored structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2013Publication date: June 18, 2015Applicants: Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Embraer S.A.Inventors: Carlos Alberto Gallo, Domingos Alves Rade, Elias Bitencourt Teodoro, Luiz Gustavo Martins, Marcos Morais de Souza, Roberto Mendes Finzi Neto, Valder Steffen, JR., Camilia Gianini Golsalez, Glauco Humberto Gomes, Fernando Dotta, Mauricio Hartmann, Paulo Anchieta da Silva, Ricardo Pinheiro Rulli