198results about "Frequency to amplitude conversion" patented technology

The invention relates to a wireless-receiving system for detecting microelectronic mechanical microwave frequency and a preparation method thereof. The wireless-receiving system for detecting the microelectronic mechanical microwave frequency has quite simple structure, large measurement magnitude range, no direct-current power consumption and easy integration. In the system for detecting the microelectronic mechanical microwave frequency, gallium arsenide is used as a substrate, wherein a microwave antenna (A), a one-three power splitter (B), a coplanar waveguide transmission line (C), a two-in-one power combiner (D), an MEMS cantilever capacitive microwave power sensor (E) and an MEMS thermoelectric microwave power sensor (F) are designed on the substrate; and then a phase difference between a signal 3 and a signal 2 after the signal 3 passes through the coplanar waveguide transmission line with the length of lambda/2 can be determined according to a law of cosines. Because the phase difference corresponds to the frequency of the signal, the frequency of the signal can be measured.

In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a nano-scale spectrum sensor configured to be electromagnetically excitable at a predetermined frequency based on received ambient electromagnetic radiation. The apparatus is also configured to be able to use this excitation of the nano-scale spectrum sensor to thereby determine ambient electromagnetic radiation spectrum usage.

The present invention determines the resonant frequency of a sensor by adjusting the phase and frequency of an energizing signal until the frequency of the energizing signal matches the resonant frequency of the sensor. The system energizes the sensor with a low duty cycle, gated burst of RF energy having a predetermined frequency or set of frequencies and a predetermined amplitude. The energizing signal is coupled to the sensor via magnetic coupling and induces a current in the sensor which oscillates at the resonant frequency of the sensor. The system receives the ring down response of the sensor via magnetic coupling and determines the resonant frequency of the sensor, which is used to calculate the measured physical parameter. The system uses a pair of phase locked loops to adjust the phase and the frequency of the energizing signal.

Aspects of the present invention determine the resonant frequency of a sensor by obtain sensor signals in response to three energizing signals, measure the phase of each sensor signal, and using a group phase delay to determine the resonant frequency. The phase difference between the first and second signal is determined as a first group phase delay. The phase difference between the second and third signal is determined as a second group phase delay. The first group phase delay and second group phase delay are compared. Based on the comparison, the system may lock on the resonant frequency of the sensor or adjust a subsequent set of three energizing signals.

The invention discloses a cantilever beam frequency detector and a cantilever beam frequency detection method based on micromechanical gallium arsenide. The frequency detector comprises a power divider (PD), a phase shifter (PS), a low pass filter (F) and a gallium arsenide metal semiconductor field effect transistor (MESFET), wherein the PD is used for receiving a microwave signal to be detected and dividing the microwave signal to be detected into two branch signals with the same amplitude and phase. The detection method comprises the following steps that: when a pull-down electrode (8) is loaded with direct current (DC) offset and a cantilever beam (6) is pulled down and contacted with a gate (4), the gate (4) is loaded with the two paths of microwave signals simultaneously, so that the magnitude of saturation current between a source (2) and a drain (3) is changed; and through a capacitor and a filter, the frequency is measured by detecting the magnitude of the saturation current between the source (2) and the drain (3). By the detector and the method, DC power consumption is low, and the frequency is easy to measure.

A magnetic device includes: a magnetoresistive effect element having a magnetization fixed layer, a magnetization free layer, and a nonmagnetic layer sandwiched between the magnetization fixed layer and the magnetization free layer; an input terminal for feeding an AC signal to the magnetoresistive effect element in its stacking direction; and an output terminal for extracting an output voltage from the magnetoresistive effect element, wherein the nomagnetic layer includes an insulating layer portion comprising an insulating material, and a current-constricting layer portion comprising a conductive material which passes through the insulating layer portion in its film thickness direction.

A position sensor arrangement has a transformer based position sensor and a cable peaking correction apparatus. The cable peaking correction apparatus is coupled to at least one of a transformer based position sensor excitation input and the plurality of outputs from the transformer based position sensor.

A method and self-tuning circuit for tuning vibratory transducers, broadly including electroacoustic speakers and specifically including the speakers of common back-up alarms used for safety reasons on commercial vehicles and heavy equipment. The self-tuning circuit is physically coupled to the transducer's input terminals and operates by comparing the rising and falling edges of one period of a test waveform elicited from the transducer by the application of a test signal having a test frequency. Depending on the results of this comparison, the test frequency is adjusted by predetermined increments upward or downward until the transducer's resonance frequency has been tightly bracketed though not exactly pinpointed.

The invention discloses a method for calculating a multi-frequency AC signal. The method comprises the steps of sampling N points at each cycle of wave according to the power frequency; calculating the real part and an imaginary part for fourier algorithm through discretion fourier transformation; calculating the frequency according to the intervals of position zero crossing points of the imaginary part; calculating each coefficient value through the frequency; adjusting the amplitude and phase of each signal, calculated based on the power frequency to obtain real phasor. Compared with the other methods, the method has the advantage that extra filtering link is saved, frequency tracking is avoided, the signals at a plurality of frequencies can be measured, and therefore, three elements (frequency, amplitude and angle) of the phasor can be completely measured.

The invention discloses a subsynchronous oscillation inter-harmonic wave extracting method of online adaptive frequency change. The method comprises steps of firstly, acquiring original sampling data of phase current and phase voltage of a circuit in real time in an online manner, or through the original sampling data of the phase current and the phase voltage, calculating instantaneous power of the circuit so as to obtain input data to be calculated and extracted; carrying out filtering on the input data through a narrow-band comb-shaped filter group; acquiring real-time output data of each narrow-band filter; comparing output real-time waveform peak values of the narrow-band filters so as to obtain an extreme point of a broadband amplitude value, wherein the central frequency of the filter corresponding to the extreme point is the main oscillation frequency of the oscillation; and carrying out data fitting on the output data of the filters through zero passage comparison, and determining the precise main oscillation frequency. According to the invention, the algorithm can be applied to an online monitoring device of the subsynchronous oscillation monitoring; and online rapid recognition of oscillation signals is achieved.

Disclosed are a delay time measurement circuit and a delay time measurement method. The delay time measurement circuit is connected with a to-be-measured circuit and used for measuring delay time of the to-be-measured circuit, and comprises a signal generation source, a D-trigger and an AND gate circuit, wherein a first output end of the signal generation source is connected with a first input end of the AND gate circuit, a second output end of the signal generation source is connected with an input end of the to-be-measured circuit, an output end of the to-be-measured circuit is connected with a first input end of the D-trigger, a third output end of the signal generation source is coupled with a second input end of the D-trigger, and an output end of the D-trigger is connected with a second input end of the AND gate circuit. When the voltage of the output end of the AND gate circuit jumps to low level from high level, the signal time difference between the second output end and the third output end of the signal generation source is the delay time of the to-be-measured circuit. The delay time measurement circuit and the delay time measurement method can measure delay time of the to-be-measured circuit simply and accurately.

The invention provides a square wave detector for a wireless wake-up circuit. The frequency of the square wave detector can be configured within the range of 10-200 kHz. The square wave detector comprises a signal acquisition circuit and a square wave detection circuit, wherein the square wave detection circuit comprises a jitter detection module path, a frequency detection module path, a relevant detection module path and an AND circuit which are used for respectively detecting the duty factor, the frequency and the relevance of an input sampling signal; and when outputs of the three detection module paths are high levels respectively, the output of the AND circuit is also high level and the square wave detection circuit outputs a wake-up signal. By detecting the jitter, the frequency and the relevance of the input sampling signal, the accurate judgment and clutter reduction are realized, the mistaken wake-up probability is effectively reduced, the wake-up probability is increased and the wake-up time is remarkably shortened, thereby increasing the work efficiency of a wake-up receiver and reducing the power consumption of the system. The square wave detector provided by the invention is suitable for wake-up receiving circuits of an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) system and an ETC (Electronic Toll Collection) system.

The invention discloses a method for frequency estimation of a non-equilibrium three-phase power system. The method comprises the steps that the frequency of the non-equilibrium three-phase power system is estimated mainly on the basis of a widely-linear total least square self-adaption algorithm model, wherein the widely-linear model sufficiently utilizes three-phase voltage complete two-order information, and the frequency estimation robustness is enhanced. Compared with traditional linear self-adaptation estimation, the method is more applicable to the non-equilibrium system, and unbiased frequency estimation is given. Meanwhile, the model is not sensitive to changes of the three-phase voltage amplitude along with time passage and higher harmonic. The method is more stable and low in computation complexity, and the convergence performance, robust anti-noise performance and stable convergence precision are obviously improved.

The invention discloses a sine wave parameter measuring method and system in an electric power system. The sine wave parameter measuring method in the electric power system comprises sampling a sine wave signal and obtaining a sampling data sequence according to the preset signal time duration and a preset signal discrete sampling frequency; normalizing an amplitude of the sampling data sequence and generating into a sine wave signal sequence with the normalized amplitude; selecting two discrete signals being at a nearest starting zero crossing point distance from the sine wave signal sequence and two discrete signals being at a nearest finishing zero crossing point distance from the sine wave signal; converting sampling values of the selected four discrete signals into a period of the sine wave signal through a preset period calculation model; converting the period of the sine wave signal into the sine wave signal frequency. The sine wave parameter measuring method and system in the electric power system can rapidly and stably detect the sine wave signal frequency with high accuracy.

An apparatus (100) for feeding antenna elements of a phased array antenna, comprises: at least two transmission lines (101, 101) disposed in parallel and operated at a certain frequency as resonators, each of the transmission lines (101, 101) having a predetermined length dimensioned to be at least approximately an electrical quarter-wavelength of the operating frequency, a plurality of measuring positions provided on the transmission lines (101, 101) in spacings along the longitudinal direction (x) of the transmission lines, wherein each measuring position on one of the two transmission lines (101) faces directly a corresponding neighbored measuring position on the other transmission line (101) and such corresponding measuring positions being adjacent to each other in a direction transverse to the longitudinal direction of the transmission lines (101, 101) form a measuring position pair, respectively, wherein each of the circuits (110, 120, 130) detects and amplifies/attenuates the measuring signals from an assigned measuring position pair associated with the transmission lines (101, 101) for a corresponding longitudinal position as a function of a resonant field in the transmission lines at the respective positions, and further adds the measured and processed signals in order to generate output signals for feeding corresponding antenna elements.

A method and a device for measuring the speed of a pulse-activated electric motor are described. According to this method, the motor is fully activated at time intervals to be determined for a defined measuring time by the circuit element provided for timing and, in this time, the frequency of the current ripples, which is proportional to the motor speed, is measured. A current-proportional voltage measuring device is located on the circuit element, on whose load side are located an amplifier, filters, and an evaluation circuit in the form of a comparator for determining the frequency of the current ripples flowing in a measured phase during which the motor is fully activated.

The invention relates to a power system frequency measuring method and a device. The method comprises the steps of calculating the line voltages at three moments with an interval of 1/P cyclic wave according to a sampling value of bus voltage acquired from a power system, and calculating the current frequency of the system according to the real and imaginary parts of the line voltages at the three moments. The measuring method is based on a simple principle, and is easy to implement. Through the method, the frequency of a power system can be measured accurately without being influenced by the zero crossing point and harmonic wave.

Disclosed is a sub-synchronous oscillation parameter identification method for synchronous phasor data based on interpolation DFT. The method comprises the following steps of 1, acquiring real-time high-resolution waveform data; 2, obtaining a synchronous phasor Xr(m) at a master station; 3, conducting a discrete Fourier transform operation on the synchronous phasor Xr(m) in a rectangular window to obtain a discrete Fourier transform spectrum Fr(k); 4, determining a frequency spectrum line km with the largest sub-synchronous oscillation amplitude; 5, constructing index phasors [k1, k2, k3, k4], introducing a frequency spectrum Frs(ki) of a second-order difference optical spectrum, and obtaining a simplified second-order difference ratio R; 6, calculating the values of a frequency fs and adamping coefficient alphas of sub-synchronous oscillation components; 7, conducting Hann window interception on the synchronous phasor Xr(m), executing the discrete Fourier transform operation, and conducting backstepping to obtain a calculation formula of the amplitude value As of the sub-synchronous oscillation components. By means of the method, the parameters of the sub-synchronous oscillationcomponents can be accurately identified, and the alleviation of the influence of sub-synchronous oscillation on system stability and equipment safety is facilitated.

In some preferred embodiments, a switched capacitor circuit configured to change its equivalent resistance depending on the frequency of an input clock signal and a resistor element are connected in series. A power source voltage is divided by the equivalent resistance of the switched capacitor circuit and the resistance of the resistor element, and the divided voltage is inputted to a Schmitt circuit. The Schmitt circuit outputs a high-level signal when the inputted divided voltage is higher than a threshold voltage and a low-level signal when the inputted divided voltage is lower than a threshold voltage. Thus, depending on the frequency of the input clock signal, a high-level signal or a low-level signal is outputted.