Patents by Inventor James Ottewill

James Ottewill 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).

  • Publication number: 20150276823
    Abstract: A method for identifying a fault condition in an electrical machine in which at least a stator or a rotor has parallel winding branches is disclosed. A measurement is carried out for obtaining a set of circulating current values between two parallel winding branches of which each winding branch includes a single coil. A frequency analysis is applied on the set of circulating current values to obtain at least one frequency component. A fault condition of the electrical machine is determined on the basis of the at least one frequency component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Pedro Rodriguez, Cajetan Pinto, Maciej Orman, Michal Orkisz, Ulf Ahrend, Rolf Disselnkötter, Pawel Rzeszucinski, James Ottewill
  • Publication number: 20140324365
    Abstract: A method of assessing the technical condition of a rotating shaft by combining measurements from sensors to create the shaft trajectories in three dimensions and comparing them with patterns of theoretical shapes obtained from a theoretical model is disclosed. The method includes measuring synchronized analog vibration signals obtained from sensor devices located close to first and second bearing respectively, and converting analog vibration signals into discrete vibration signals which are converted into discrete displacement signals which are delivered to a computer. The computer also receives three-dimensional theoretical models of the rotating shaft containing patterns of theoretical shapes of the rotating shaft. The computer also prepares three-dimensional real model images of the rotating shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Maciej Orman, James Ottewill, Michal Orkisz
  • Publication number: 20140236537
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a method of determining stationary signals for the diagnostics of an electromechanical systems in which electrical rotating machinery is used and in which at least one electrical or mechanical signal is measured during an operation of the electromechanical system. The method is used especially for condition monitoring of electric motors and generators. The method consists of measuring an analog waveform signal (S) of the electromechanical system and then manipulating that signal in various ways to obtain a frequencies spectrum, from which a vector of interest frequencies and corresponding vector of amplitudes are extracted to diagnose the electromechanical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventors: Maciej Orman, James Ottewill, Michal Orkisz
  • Publication number: 20140074427
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program for monitoring the condition of electromechanical systems in which electrical rotating machinery is used. The method includes measuring current and/or voltage signals, measuring an angular position of a rotating shaft of interest of the electromechanical systems or estimating the value of discrete angular position of a rotating shaft, synchronizing the current and/or voltage signals to the scaled angular displacement of the rotating shaft, dividing the synchronous electrical signals into intervals corresponding to each completed rotation of the rotating shaft, averaging a number of intervals of synchronous electrical signals to obtain an average synchronous electrical signal, extracting characteristic data of the magnitude from the values of the average synchronous electrical signal, and comparing the extracted characteristic data with a threshold limit to alarm the user when the limit is exceeded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Inventors: James Ottewill, Michal Orkisz