RedAlign Announces Pending Patent on Breakthrough No-Touch Laser Shaft Alignment Technology

November 10, 2020 -- RedAlign LLC today announced their pending patent on breakthrough new no-touch laser shaft alignment technology. The brand new RedAlign technology allows users to measure motor-pump alignment while hot and running in normal conditions -- that is to say, without turning off the motor.

RedAlign's innovation promises momentous gains for manufacturing, hydropower, wind power installations, marine, and oil & gas operations. By empowering engineers, technicians and managers to achieve unprecedented alignment precision, RedAlign will usher in significant cost, energy, and time savings.

The patent abstract reads as follows:

"An apparatus and method for aligning two coaxially coupled rotatable shafts. A servo operated positioning device is movable along a longitudinal axis parallel to the axis of the shafts, and movable vertically to position a laser range (LRF) adjacent to the two shafts, which measures the distance between the LRF and a spot on the shafts. A controller having a processor and memory communicates with the positioning device and the LRF to collect data at two axial positions on each shaft. At each position the LRF measures the distance to the shaft and stores the measurement and location data. The LRF is vertically repositioned and the measurement and storing steps are repeated over a scan distance sufficient to provide enough data to determine the location of the shaft center. The processor then calculates and compares the shafts centerlines and determines the necessary adjustments needed to move the shafts into coaxial alignment."

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