1874results about "Electrostatic field measurements" patented technology

The present invention relates to an electronic circuit and an array of such circuits for precisely measuring small amounts or small changes in the amount of charge, voltage, or electrical currents. One embodiment of the present invention provides an electronic circuit for measuring current or charge that can be used with a variety of sensing media (including high impedance sensing media) that produce a signal by either charge or current production or induction in response to physical phenomena occurring within the sensing media. In another embodiment, the voltage level (bias) of either the sensing or reference electrode can be switched relative to the other upon receipt of a triggering pulse. This changes the polarity of the electric field to cause charge of the opposite polarity to be driven to the sensing electrode, thereby eliminating the need to electrically connect a discharge path to the sensing electrode to clear the charge accumulated at the sensing electrode. This can be supplemented by capacitively coupling a compensation signal to the sensing electrode to cause the amplifier output signal to lessen in magnitude below a threshold level that permits additional charge or current measurements of the same polarity before performing bias reversal. Alternately or in combination with bias reversal and capacitive compensation, sensor performance can be improved by minimizing inaccuracies caused by leakage currents or current drawn from the sensor. Other described methods of reducing leakage currents that can be used alone or in combination with the aforementioned features include the use of guard rings, physical switches or relays, the controlled creation of charges or currents of a specific polarity in a specific region of the sensing medium, controlled leakage over the surface of an insulator, and controlling the environment in which the circuit operates.

A compact sensor system integrates electric and / or magnetic field sensors to accurately measure, with a high level of sensitivity, one or more electric and magnetic vector components of fields. The electric and magnetic field data can be utilized separately or combined. The sensor system is self-contained so as to include a built-in power source, as well as data storage and / or transmission capability. The integrated sensor system also preferably includes a global positioning system (GPS) to provide timing and position information, a sensor unit which can determine the orientation and tilt of the sensor system, and self-calibrating structure which produces local electric and / or magnetic fields used to calibrate the sensor system following deployment.

A compact sensor system integrates electric and / or magnetic field sensors to accurately measure, with a high level of sensitivity, one or more electric and magnetic vector components of fields. The electric and magnetic field data can be utilized separately or combined. The sensor system is self-contained so as to include a built-in power source, as well as data storage and / or transmission capability. The integrated sensor system also preferably includes a global positioning system (GPS) to provide timing and position information, a sensor unit which can determine the orientation and tilt of the sensor system, and self-calibrating structure which produces local electric and / or magnetic fields used to calibrate the sensor system following deployment.

A method of analyzing partial discharge data collected from an electrical device includes collecting partial discharge data from a first electrical device belonging to a group of electrical devices. The group of electrical devices is at least partially defined by at least one electrical device classification. The method also includes generating a comparison of at least a portion of the partial discharge data collected from the first electrical device with at least a portion of the partial discharge data collected from at least one second electrical device. The at least one second electrical device is selected from the group of electrical devices that includes the first electrical device. The method further includes transmitting the results.

A method and apparatus are described for interacting with electronic devices through motional commands. The method uses perturbations of the background quasistatic electric fields. The apparatus measures perturbations in electric potential relative to the background. Body movement is recognized by comparing changes in signals over time. Signals collected from sensors are compared with training sets to recognize specified motional commands or gestures. Upon recognizing the commands, the apparatus issues the predetermined response to the motion.

A sensor product for electric field sensing. The sensor includes a substrate, at least one electrically conductive area on the surface of the substrate, an output, and at least one conductor between the at least one electrically conductive area and the output. Also a sensor product web.

The invention is a detection system and in one embodiment uses inexpensive, miniaturized sensors for detecting electric field (E-field) disturbances. Such sensors are easily and covertly deployable and have low power consumption. The devices may incorporate visual or audio alerts and can include communications hardware for transmitting data for further processing of the electrostatic events.

An electronic device includes a main body, a drive mechanism configured to move the main body, a detector having a plurality of sensors mounted in the main body for detecting distances to an object which is present in a space around the main body, a calculator configured to calculate a direction of the object relative to the main body based on the detected distances, and a controller configured to control the drive mechanism to change an orientation of the main body dependent on the calculated direction.

Disclosed is a UHF partial discharge and its location measuring device for high-voltage power devices. The measuring device includes a partial discharge sensor, an external noise sensor, an analogue-digital converter, a peak detector, a partial discharge signal processor, an arrival time detector, a discharge location processor, and a display unit.

A sensor system accurately measures, with a high level of sensitivity, one or more vector components of a small electric field, through the use of multiple, relatively fixed sensors, at least one of which constitutes a weakly coupled capacitive sensor. The sensor system enables the electric field to be determined in a direction normal to a surface or along multiple orthogonal axes. Measurement of the electric field vector can provide improved resolution and characterization of electrical signals produced, for example, by organs within the human body.

Compositions for treating fabric. The compositions of the present invention may be used to improve various properties of fabrics such as the olfactory perception and / or appearance of the fabric without requiring that the fabrics be put through an entire standard laundry process. Methods of treating the fabrics are also disclosed.

The invention provides a device, a system and a method for measuring space charges by using an electro-acoustic (PEA) method. The device comprises a first electrode, a second electrode, a first thermostatic source, a second thermostatic source, a high-voltage direct current power supply, a pulse generator and a piezoelectric transducer, wherein the first electrode is used for contacting with one surface of the tested insulation material sample; the second electrode is used for contacting with the other surface of the tested insulation material sample; the first thermostatic source is used forconducting the temperature to the first electrode; the second thermostatic source is used for conducting the temperature to the second electrode; the high-voltage direct current power supply is used for transmitting the high-voltage direct current to the first electrode; the pulse generator is used for transmitting a high-voltage pulse signal to the first electrode; the piezoelectric transducer is used for detecting the acoustic signal of the tested insulation material sample, generated by the functions of the temperature gradient field, the high-voltage electric field and the high-voltage electric pulse, and is used for converting the acoustic signal into an electrical signal to output. The invention is used for measuring the distribution of the space charges in the high-voltage direct current power equipment insulation in the temperature gradient field.

A long-lived, lightweight, and quickly and precisely charged storage capacitor power supply capable of stably supplying electric power to a load. The power supply has a capacitor block consisting of capacitors connected in series, in parallel or in any combination of series and parallel. The power supply further includes a charging circuit for charging the block, a charging power supply connected with the block via the charging circuit, and a charge-limiting circuit. This charge-limiting circuit detects the voltage across the terminals of the block and limits charging of the block if the voltage reaches a given value. One embodiment of the invention further includes a charge-limiting circuit, a full charge-detecting circuit, and a residual electricity-detecting circuit connected in parallel with the block. The charge-limiting circuit senses that the voltage across the terminals of the block exceeds the given value and causes the charging current to bypass the block. The full charge-detecting circuit senses that the charge-limiting circuit is operated and determines that full charge is attained. The residual electricity-detecting circuit finds the residual electric power from the voltage across the terminals of the block. Another embodiment has a first and a second capacitor block. The voltage across the terminals of the first block is detected. The first block is charged from the second block until the detected voltage reaches a given voltage. The first block supplies electric power directly to the load.

The invention discloses a miniature electric field sensor with special-shaped electrodes, which relates to the sensor technology. A sensor sensitive structure comprises a substrate, an exciting unit, a shielding electrode, an electric field induction electrode, an anchor point and other parts. The exciting unit comprises an exciting electrode and a support beam, which are symmetrically distributed at two sides of the sensor sensitive structure; and the shielding electrode and the electric field induction electrode are arranged in staggered form, and are distributed at a middle position region of the sensor sensitive structure. The exiting unit, the shielding electrode, the electric field induction electrode, the anchor point and the like are located in the same structural layer. The miniature electric field sensor provided by the invention comprises the special-shaped electric field induction electrode and shielding electrode, thus, charge changes of the electric field induction electrode in the sensor within unit time is increased, and the sensitivity of the miniature electric field sensor is improved.

A system, in one embodiment, includes a power distribution center having an enclosure with an access door configured to move between a closed position and an open position. The power distribution center includes a non-contact sensor disposed inside the enclosure, wherein the non-contact sensor comprises a non-contact voltage sensor, or a non-contact temperature sensor, or a combination thereof. The power distribution center also includes an indicator viewable outside of the enclosure while the door is in the closed position, wherein the indicator is coupled to the non-contact sensor.

A robust, easily deployable, covert, passive intrusion detection system uses one or more E-field sensors to detect the presence of a moving individual and to provide an indication of the presence of the individual adjacent the sensor based on E-field distortion produced by the individual. Single-ended and differential E-field sensors with noise canceling and a guarding circuit provide sufficient sensitivity, with filtering from 0.5 Hz to 8.0 Hz selecting only human intruders. Either visible or invisible flashing light sources at the sensor indicate the presence of a moving individual at the sensor, thus to provide intruder location without the necessity of providing a geolocation system.

The invention relates to a weak electric field detection technology, particularly relates to an electric field detection method and device based on stark effects of Rydberg atoms, and solves the technical problems that the measurement on an electric field, particularly a weak electric field, is not accurate enough at present, and the sensitivity is not high enough. The electric field detection method based on the stark effects of the Rydberg atoms comprises the following steps: (a) oppositely arranging two beams of laser and collinearly emitting the laser into a sample tank which is internally filled with alkaline metal atom steam; (b) acquiring a signal of the second beam of the laser emitted out by the sample tank and converting the signal into a corresponding electric signal; and (c) analyzing the acquired electric signal, and if the electric field exists, observing an absorption spectrum with a stark cracking phenomenon from the signal, so as to further solve the intensity of the electric field E. According to the electric field detection method and device based on the stark effects of the Rydberg atoms, the electric field can be measured by the stark effects with an alkaline metal atom Rydberg energy level; the measurement precision is high and the electric field strength which is weakened to an mV / cm grade can be measured.

The invention relates to a method for testing the electricity of an ultrahigh-voltage transmission line based on electric field measurement, which comprises the following steps: 1, establishing a measurement point; 2, measuring an electric field; 3, establishing a transmission line power frequency inverse problem equivalent model; and 4, computing the voltage of the transmission line according to the electric field at the measurement point to obtain the actual voltage of each phase of transmission line, if the voltage of the transmission line is below 30 V, determining the transmission line is electrically neutral, otherwise, determining the transmission line is electrified. The invention also relates to a system for implementing the method for testing the electricity of the ultrahigh-voltage transmission line based on the electric field measurement, which consists of an electricity testing terminal and a data processing centre. The method and the system realize the non-contact electricity testing of the ultrahigh-voltage transmission line and ensure the safety of workers. Because the voltage level of the ultrahigh-voltage transmission line is high and a safe distance is long, the safe, effective and new method for testing the electricity of the ultrahigh-voltage transmission line is provided.

The invention discloses a microwave electric field intensity meter based on a cold Rydberg atom interferometer and a measuring method thereof. The microwave electric field intensity meter comprises: a vacuum system, which is used for cooling and trapping atom to generate a cold atom cloud for preparing a Rydberg state and generating an interference effect so as to generate a phase difference by coherent atomic states; a laser, which is used for generating coupling light and detection light and exciting the cold atom in the vacuum system from a ground state to the Rydberg state coherently; a photoelectric detector, which is used for detecting an interference fringe generated by two beams of cold atom clouds due to coherence; and a microwave source, which is used for generating a microwave electric field. According to the invention, when the microwave electric field intensity meter is applied to the evolution process of coherent beam splitting and combination, the atom cloud in the Rydberg state interacts with a to-be-measured microwave electric field, thereby generating an alternating-current stark effect; and the to-be-measured microwave electric field intensity is associated with a phase generated by the an alternating-current stark, thereby realizing precise measurement of the microwave electric field.

The invention relates to a mobile radio-frequency enabled device. In order to enable a lightning detection by means of such a device, it comprises an electromagnetic interferences detection component detecting electromagnetic interferences in at least one radio-frequency channel, which at least one radio-frequency channel is usable by the mobile radio-frequency enabled device for a communication link. The device further comprises a processing component adapted to determine whether a lightning stroke can be assumed to have occurred in the vicinity of the mobile radio-frequency enabled device due to an electromagnetic interference detected by said electromagnetic interferences detection component. The invention relates equally to a corresponding system, to a corresponding method and to a corresponding software program product.

A voltmeter measures an unknown voltage on a target surface using multiple sampling stages or a parallel reference capacitor. A movable shutter may alternately be closed during resetting of a voltage measuring circuit and opened so as to expose a detector plate to the target surface during two sampling stages. Alternatively, the shutter may be used to modulate exposure of a detector plate to the target surface.

The invention relates to a resonance miniature electric field sensor. The sensor comprises a substrate, an exciting electrode with a comb structure, a vibration sensitive electrode with a comb structure, a shielding electrode, an electric field inductive electrode, a crossbeam and a supporting beam, wherein the exciting electrode with the comb structure is fixed on one side of the substrate by ananchor point, while the vibration sensitive electrode with the comb structure is fixed on the other side of the substrate by an anchor point; the shielding electrode and the electric field inductive electrode are fixed on the area of the substrate in the middle of the exciting electrode and the vibration sensitive electrode; the shielding electrode and the electric field inductive electrode are alternately arranged; the crossbeam is positioned in the middle of the shielding electrode; one end of the supporting beam is fixed on the substrate by the anchor point, while the other end is connectedwith the exciting electrode and the vibration sensitive electrode. The resonance miniature electric field sensor can reduce the static exciting voltage of a device, improve the sensitivity and precision of the sensor, and further improve the environment interference resistance capability of the sensor.

An E-field sensing system is provided to detect the presence of obstacles, including wires, power lines or trip wires, as well as towers, guy wires, buildings and elevated terrain, in which a variation or tilt of the iso-potential electrostatic field adjacent the obstacle is detected. In one embodiment the bearing to the obstacle is ascertained. The result is the detection of power lines from as far away as at least 1,000 feet and unpowered wires from as far away as at least 100 feet, thus reducing pilot anxiety for low level missions as well as providing for wire strike avoidance.

A method of analyzing partial discharge data collected from an electrical device includes collecting partial discharge data from a first electrical device belonging to a group of electrical devices. The group of electrical devices is at least partially defined by at least one electrical device classification. The method also includes generating a comparison of at least a portion of the partial discharge data collected from the first electrical device with at least a portion of the partial discharge data collected from at least one second electrical device. The at least one second electrical device is selected from the group of electrical devices that includes the first electrical device. The method further includes transmitting the results.

A robust, easily deployable, covert, passive intrusion detection system uses one or more E-field sensors to detect the presence of a moving individual and to provide an indication of the presence of the individual adjacent the sensor based on E-field distortion produced by the individual. Single-ended and differential E-field sensors with noise canceling and a guarding circuit provide sufficient sensitivity, with filtering from 0.5 Hz to 8.0 Hz selecting only human intruders. Either visible or invisible flashing light sources at the sensor indicate the presence of a moving individual at the sensor, thus to provide intruder location without the necessity of providing a geolocation system.

A method for sensing an electric field includes processing digitized electric field signals, e.g., from an electric field sensing probe. The processing may include performing a Fast Fourier Transform of the digitized electric field signals to provide an indication of the magnitude of the electric field, and may include processing the digitized electric field signals at a rate that is related to the speed at which a movable sensing probe is moving. The method may include performing unweighted and / or weighted averaging in relation to processing electric field data, setting a comparison threshold, providing a human perceivable indication, or a combination of the foregoing.

A voltage measuring apparatus measures the voltage of a measured object and includes a detection electrode capable of being disposed facing the measured object, a variable capacitance circuit that is connected between the detection electrode and a reference potential and whose electrostatic capacitance can be changed, a voltage generating circuits that generates the reference potential, and a control unit. The control unit causes the voltage generating circuit to change the reference potential while the electrostatic capacitance of the variable capacitance circuit is being changed. A power is measuring apparatus includes the voltage measuring apparatus and a current measuring apparatus that measures current flowing in the measured object, and measures power based on the current measured by the current measuring apparatus and the voltage measured by the voltage measuring apparatus.

A potential measurement apparatus for measuring a surface potential of an object of measurement detects a change in electric charge induced at a detection electrode due to electrostatic induction by changing a distance between the detection electrode and the object of measurement in accordance with a predetermined period, using a neutral distance as reference, as a signal representing a change in electric current. The potential measurement apparatus includes a first detection unit for detecting a signal representing a fundamental period of the change in electric current and a signal representing a second harmonic period, a second detection unit for detecting information representing a capacitance between the detection electrode at the neutral distance and the object of measurement and an arithmetic unit for computationally obtaining information on the surface potential of the object of measurement, with eliminating an influence of the neutral distance and the capacitance, according to an outcome of detection of the first detection unit and an outcome of detection of the second detection unit.