US 11,721,433 B2
System and method for condition based monitoring and maintenance of an automation track
Shannon Frone, Long Valley, NJ (US); and Baris Yagci, Montclair, NJ (US)
Assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc., Tarrytown, NY (US)
Appl. No. 16/319,301
Filed by Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc., Tarrytown, NY (US)
PCT Filed Jul. 19, 2017, PCT No. PCT/US2017/042941
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 18, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/017770, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 25, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/365,310, filed on Jul. 21, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2019/0237190 A1, Aug. 1, 2019
Int. Cl. G16H 40/40 (2018.01); G01N 35/04 (2006.01); G16H 10/40 (2018.01); G01N 35/00 (2006.01)
CPC G16H 40/40 (2018.01) [G01N 35/00623 (2013.01); G01N 35/00871 (2013.01); G01N 35/04 (2013.01); G16H 10/40 (2018.01); G01N 2035/009 (2013.01); G01N 2035/00643 (2013.01); G01N 2035/00881 (2013.01); G01N 2035/0467 (2013.01); G01N 2035/0477 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A maintenance monitoring system for an in-vitro diagnostics (IVD) system, comprising:
an automation system comprising:
a track along which a plurality of carriers traverse, each carrier having one or more magnets in a base of each carrier, and
a plurality of coil boards mounted to the track, each board comprising one or more magnetic coils arranged along the longitudinal direction of the track and configured to selectively engage the one or more magnets in the base of each carrier, and at least one sensor;
at least one controller coupled to each of the plurality of coil boards, the controller configured to selectively activate the magnetic coils of each coil board and to collect sensor data from each sensor of each coil board; and
at least one processor configured to store the sensor data in memory,
analyze the sensor data to identify any coil boards that are performing outside normal parameters from the sensor data, and
alert an operator automatically if any such identified coil boards.