US 12,460,742 B2
Valve-diagnostic system and device
Daniel Edgardo Flandin, Surrey (CA); Nicholas Felix Flandin, Surrey (CA); and Vitalii Roslov, New Westminster (CA)
Assigned to GENERAL TECHNOLOGIES CORP., Delta (CA)
Filed by General Technologies Corp., Delta (CA)
Filed on Apr. 30, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/864,053.
Application 16/864,053 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CA2018/051368, filed on Oct. 29, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/580,375, filed on Nov. 1, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0355295 A1, Nov. 12, 2020
Int. Cl. F16K 37/00 (2006.01); G01M 13/003 (2019.01)
CPC F16K 37/0008 (2013.01) [G01M 13/003 (2019.01); F16K 37/0025 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for ascertaining an operational status of an electrically-actuated valve, the system comprising:
a handheld portable valve-diagnostic device, the handheld portable valve-diagnostic device comprising:
a body embodied separately from the electrically-actuated valve, the body positionable at any one of a plurality of locations proximate to the electrically-actuated valve and removable from the any one of the plurality of locations proximate to the electrically-actuated valve;
a first sensor for detecting movement of a movable part of the electrically-actuated valve relative to a stationary part of the electrically-actuated valve and outputting a first sensor signal based on the detected movement while the body is handheld at any one of the plurality of locations proximate to the electrically-actuated valve; and
a second sensor for detecting an electric and/or magnetic field associated with the operation of an electrical component of the electrically-actuated valve and outputting a second sensor signal based on the detected electric and/or magnetic field while the body is handheld at any one of the plurality of locations proximate to the electrically-actuated valve;
wherein the first sensor and the second sensor are housed in or on the body; and
a data analyzer connected to the valve-diagnostic device to receive the first sensor signal and the second sensor signal, the data analyzer configured to:
select one of the first sensor signal and the second sensor signal as a timing reference for synchronizing the first sensor signal and the second sensor signal;
synchronize the first sensor signal and the second sensor signal to the timing reference; and
display an output based on the synchronized first sensor signal and second sensor signal.