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Granted Patent B2
US 11,857,843 · App. 18/077,464 · Granted Jan 2, 2024

Dynamic motion force sensor module

Inventors: Shawn A. Hendricks (Fords, NJ); Christopher M. Toner (Germantown, MD)
Assignee: Dynamic Accession LLC
A63B24/0087A63B21/0058A63B21/153A63B24/0062A63B71/0054A63B71/0622A63B2024/0093A63B2071/0072A63B2071/0625A63B2220/51A63B2220/833A63B2225/50
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Patent No.
US 11,857,843
App. No.
18/077,464
Granted
Jan 2, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A torque measurement system and method for providing real time tracking and motor control for adjusting standard and dynamic torque-to-linear forces in an electromechanical motor. The system includes sensors for measuring data, load wedges affixed to a rotor, a slip bearing for measuring forward and reverse forces of the rotor section, a tracking measurement unit adapted to measure raw data, a wireless radio, an internal processor, and a tracking processing unit.

Claims (16)

1. A torque measurement system for providing real time tracking and motor control for adjusting standard and dynamic torque-to-linear forces in an electromechanical motor, the system comprising:

one or more sensors for measuring data;

one or more load wedges affixed to a rotor;

a slip bearing for measuring forward and reverse forces of the rotor section;

a tracking measurement unit adapted to measure raw data;

a wireless radio;

an internal processor; and

a tracking processing unit, wherein the tracking processing unit includes

program instructions and algorithms that are executed by the internal processor to determine one or more tracking parameters using raw data measured by the tracking measurement unit;

a first electronic communications channel for receiving the measured data via the wireless radio from the tracking measurement unit, and

a second electronic communications channel for for transmitting one or more apparatus conditions data from the tracking processing unit to a controller of the electromechanical motor to adjust dynamic forces.

2. The system as recited in claim 1 , wherein the one or more sensors are load cells that measure rotational force data.

3. The system as recited in claim 2 , wherein the load cells are arranged as a half bridge.

4. The system as recited in claim 2 , wherein the load cells are arranged as a full bridge.

5. The system as recited in claim 2 , wherein the one or more load wedges transfer rotational force to a lever section of the one or more load cells forming compression forces, wherein the compression forces are converted to torque force and are used to provide closed loop motor control of user experienced forces.

6. The system as recited in claim 1 , wherein the measured data of the one or more sensors is converted by the tracking measuring unit using digital to analog converter data and the converted measured data is communicated to the tracking processing unit.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 8, 2022
From: SHAWN A. HENDRICKS; CHRISTOPHER M. TONER
To: DYNAMIC ACCESSION LLC
Reel/Frame 062095/0522 →
Continuity (4)
Continuation In Part 17485691 · Sep 27, 2021
Continuation 17236327 · Apr 21, 2021
Provisional Application 63014191 · Apr 23, 2020
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