Stretch detection system for power transmission mechanism

1 . A stretch detection system of a power transmission mechanism, which is connectable to a conveyor system including a motor, a rotation mechanism driven by the motor, and the power transmission mechanism driven by rotation of the rotation mechanism, the stretch detection system comprising:

a frequency domain signal conversion unit that converts a signal of a current of the motor into a frequency domain signal;

an integral value calculation unit that calculates an integral value by performing integration on the frequency domain signal obtained by the frequency domain signal conversion unit, by extracting a power supply frequency, that is a frequency of a power supply that drives the motor, having a maximum peak value in the frequency domain signal, and by using, as an integration range, at least one of a plurality of regions of a plurality of sideband waves respectively corresponding to a plurality of frequencies determined using a rotation frequency of the rotation mechanism, each of the plurality of frequencies obtained by adding the rotation frequency or a harmonic of the rotation frequency to the power supply frequency;

a stretch diagnosis unit that diagnoses a state of stretch of the power transmission mechanism by using the integral value calculated by the integral value calculation unit; and

an output unit that outputs a diagnosis result of the stretch diagnosis unit.

2 . The stretch detection system of a power transmission mechanism according to claim 1 ,

wherein the integration range does not include the rotation frequency and the harmonic frequency of the rotation frequency.

3 . The stretch detection system of a power transmission mechanism according to claim 1 ,

wherein the integral value calculation unit performs integration for each of a plurality of integration ranges that do not overlap each other.

4 . The stretch detection system of a power transmission mechanism according to claim 1 ,

wherein the current of the motor is a phase current of one or more phases.

5 . The stretch detection system of a power transmission mechanism according to claim 1 ,

wherein the current of the motor is a torque current.

6 . The stretch detection system of a power transmission mechanism according to claim 1 ,

wherein the power transmission mechanism is a chain or a belt.

7 . The stretch detection system of a power transmission mechanism according to claim 1 ,

wherein the output unit outputs the diagnosis result to at least one of a display, a speaker, a lamp, a control device of the conveyor system, and a control device of the motor.

8 . The stretch detection system of a power transmission mechanism according to claim 1 ,

wherein the integral value calculation unit sets, as the integration range, at least one of a region, being one of the plurality of regions, of one of the plurality of sideband waves having the frequency obtained by adding the rotation frequency to the power supply frequency, and a region, being one of the plurality of regions, of a sideband wave having the frequency obtained by adding a harmonic frequency of the rotation frequency to the power supply frequency.

9 . The stretch detection system of a power transmission mechanism according to claim 2 ,

wherein the integration range does not include the frequency obtained by adding the rotation frequency to the power supply frequency and the frequency obtained by adding the harmonic frequency of the rotation frequency to the power supply frequency.