Patent ID: 9071888
Filing Date: 2015-06-30
Classification: F01D,F05D,F23N,F23R,G01K,H01F,H04Q

Abstract:
1. A wireless telemetry system for monitoring operating conditions of a component of a combustion turbine engine having a compressor and a power turbine, the wireless telemetry system comprising: a sensor in connection with the component; a telemetry transmitter circuit affixed to the component; an electrical connecting material on the component for routing electronic data signals from the sensor to the telemetry transmitter circuit, the electronic data signals indicative of a condition of the component; a resonant energy transfer system for powering the telemetry transmitter circuit including a primary coil that transmits an oscillating current signal and is affixed to an area of the combustion turbine engine in spaced relation to a secondary coil comprising an electrically conductive material on the component in electrical communication with the telemetry transmitter circuit, wherein the secondary coil is in resonance at a same frequency as a transmitting frequency of the oscillating current signal; a first data antenna affixed to the component and in electrical communication with the telemetry transmitter circuit routing the electronic data signals indicative of the condition of the component from the telemetry transmitter circuit to the first data antenna; a second data antenna affixed to the area of the combustion turbine engine proximate and in spaced relation to the first data antenna that receives the electronic data signals, indicative of the condition of the component and transmitted from the first data antenna; and wherein the telemetry transmitting circuit, the first data antenna and the secondary coil are on a same substrate affixed to the component, wherein the telemetry transmitting circuit, the first data antenna and the secondary coil on the same substrate and are housed in an RF transparent cover.