Patent ID: 11965859
Assignee: DISCOVERY SOUND TECHNOLOGY, LLC
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A system for empirical analysis of remaining life in electromechanical devices, the system comprising:
one or more sensors configured to generate signals representing sound energy emitted by electromechanical devices when positioned in association therewith;
data storage having stored therein digital sound data corresponding to generated signals for each of a plurality of electromechanical devices;
at least one server functionally linked to the one or more sensors and the data storage, and configured to iteratively develop one or more models to classify sound characteristics and their corresponding impact on wear rate over time, based at least in part on recurring analysis of the stored sound data with respect to observed intervention events and/or user input relating thereto;
wherein the at least one server is further configured, for a selected electromechanical device, to:
estimate, using at least one of the models, a wear state of the selected electromechanical device based on a comparison of current sound energy emitted therefrom with respect to sound data for a comparable group of electromechanical devices,
ascertain whether one or more of the classified sound characteristics are present in digital sound data corresponding to the selected electromechanical device,
ascertain a variant wear rate for the selected electromechanical device based on one or more classified sound characteristics ascertained as being present in the digital sound data corresponding thereto,
determine a confidence level with respect to the ascertained variant wear rate and/or the ascertained presence of one or more of the classified sound characteristics in the digital sound data corresponding thereto, and
selectively generate one or more output signals upon the confidence level reaching and/or exceeding a predetermined confidence threshold, wherein the one or more output signals are provided to alert and/or initiate a response corresponding to a predicted intervention event associated with the variant wear rate and/or a change in predicted wear state.