1241results about "Indicating presence of current/voltage" patented technology

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.

This invention presents microstructures enhanced with nanopillars. The invention also provides ways for manufacturing nanopillar-enhanced microstructures. In some embodiments, the invention also provides methods of use for the nanopillar-enhanced microstructures.

The invention disclosed here is a display system for managing power and security for a plurality of hand-held electronic devices sold to consumers in a retail location. The display includes features that allow power to be supplied to individual devices and security sensors without continuous hard wiring or multi-conductor retractor cables. The display also allows for individual security alarms to be triggered when a theft occurs. Security alarm conditions are preferably triggered via wireless signals.

A circuit for detecting an electric current by which a loss portion of a forward current caused by a backward leakage current of a diode generated by the influence of temperature increase can be compensated such that error in the peak value of a load current detected by surrounding high temperature can be minimized, and credibility reliability can be increased for electric instruments that call for an accurate control of the load current and that generate a high temperature such as induction heating cookers, induction heaters and the like.

A method and system for measuring electric current in a plurality (n) of conductors. According to the invention, the method comprises the following steps: an electric current transducer is place substantially opposite to each conductor (I, i=1, . . . , n); a decorrelation matrix ([G]), which is a function of the position of the transducers in relation to the conductors, is constructed; the current (Imesi) in each conductor (i) is measured with the aid of electric current transducers and real currents (Ireeli) are deduced with the aid of the decorrelation matrix ([G]) and the measured currents (Imesi).

A method is provided for determining a state-of-health of a battery in a vehicle-during an engine cranking phase. An engine cranking phase is initiated. Characteristic data is recorded that includes battery voltage data and engine cranking speed data during the engine cranking phase. The characteristic data is provided to a pre-processing unit. The pre-processing unit normalizes the characteristic data for processing within a classifier. The normalized data is input o the classifier for determining the vehicle battery state-of-health. The classifier has a trained state-of-health decision boundary resulting from a plurality of trials in which predetermined characterization data is collected with known classes. The battery state-of-health is classified based on the trained state-of-health decision boundary.

A current sensor for measuring an electric current flowing through a conductor includes a ring shaped magnetic core, a bare semiconductor chip, and a case. The magnetic core has a gap and surrounds the conductor. The bare semiconductor chip has a front surface and a vertical Hall effect element formed on the front surface. The bare semiconductor chip is arranged in the gap of the magnetic core to detect a magnetic field generated by the electric current. The magnetic core and the bare semiconductor chip are accommodated in the case. A back surface of the bare semiconductor chip is fixed in the case in such a manner that the front surface of the bare semiconductor chip is parallel to a direction of the magnetic field.

A transmitter that is electrically connected to a circuit and an associated receiver is used to identify an element of that circuit in the presence of other circuits. This may be used in AC or DC systems that are powered or not to identify or trace circuit elements such as lines, junctions, switches, fuses, or breakers. One version that identifies the circuit breaker of the circuit connected to the transmitter in a powered AC distribution system.

A sensor arrangement for measuring current is disclosed. The sensor arrangement includes a substrate, at least one Hall element integrated in or arranged on the substrate, a first coil that is spaced apart from a surface of the substrate in a vertical direction, a second coil that is spaced apart in a vertical direction from the first coil, and an isolation layer that is arranged between the first coil and the second coil.

A current sensor includes a sensing circuit for sensing current and supplying indications thereof. The current sensor also includes two or more output terminals coupled to the sensing circuit that alternately supply respective indications of the sensed current according to control signals supplied to the current sensor.

A hand tool includes an alarm circuit assembly mounted in an insulating sheath at a handle of an electrically conducting tool body of the hand tool for producing a visual alarm signal when the electrically conducting tool body of the hand tool touches an electrified body, and a light-transmitting member for reflecting and refracting light from the visual alarm to form a ring of light around a top end of the insulating sheath upon the presence of the visual alarm signal.

A system and associated method for detecting lighting strikes on a wind turbine uses a plurality of lightning strike conductors that are connected to any combination of the wind turbine components. A common ground cable is connected to the conductors and to a wind turbine grounding system. A sensor is operatively configured on the common ground cable to detect current flowing through the cable from a lightning strike incident on any one of the receptors, with the sensor producing a signal proportional to the intensity of the lightning strike.

The invention provides a + / -800kV DC power transmission line hot-line electrical inspection device, and the device comprises a power module, a binocular visual unit, electric field induction equipment and an electrical inspection output module, wherein the power module, the binocular visual unit, the electric field induction equipment and the electrical inspection output module are respectively connected with a microprocessor. The power management module provides working power for the microprocessor. The binocular visual unit collects image information. The microprocessor recognizes a detected wire in a DC power transmission line according to the image information, and calculates the distance from the detected wire to the device. The electric field induction equipment measures the electric field surrounding the detected wire according to the distance from the detected wire to the device. The microprocessor judges whether the detected wire is electrified or not according to the electric field measurement result. The electrical inspection output module outputs the electrification information of the detected wire. The device is small in size, is light in weight, is large in range, is high in reliability, and can achieve the contact-type or non-contact type electrical inspection of the line through an unmanned plane or an insulating operation rod.

A boost converter for high power and high output voltage applications includes a low voltage controller integrated circuit and a high voltage, vertical, discrete field effect transistor, both of which are packed in a single package.

The invention discloses an online monitoring method of a switch cabinet lightning arrester, a double indirect electricity testing method of equipment at the wire outgoing side of a high-voltage switch cabinet, and a device for realizing the method. In the method and a matched device thereof, a voltage signal and a current signal are simultaneously taken as signal monitoring input signals of the switch cabinet lightning arrester, the input signal is subjected to digitalized processing so as to display a specific value of a primary voltage of the equipment at the wire outgoing side in real time, to be capable of collecting the action times of the lightning arrester in a switch cabinet, the accurate time of each action, the leakage full current and resistance current of each phase of the lightning arrester, and automatically recording the values of the full current and resistance current in a set time. The device is provided with three current indicating lamps which are directly connected with a three-phase lightning arrester. The current indicating lamps can be turned on by the leakage current of the lightning arrester directly so as to achieve the purpose of indicating electricity. The leakage current indicating lamps of the lightning arrester and line primary voltage form double indirect electricity testing so as to reach the standard of switch cabinet indirect electricity testing.

Systems and methods for environmental monitoring of high activity facilities, generally comprising low profile devices having sensing elements for various environmental uses, designed to provide the wireless communications network as a basis for performing a wide variety of tasks. The devices may be installed on an existing electrical system and may measure, among other things, electrical current on various circuits.

An output current calculating circuit for a flyback converter operating under CCM and DCM is disclosed. The off current value ION and the blanking current value ILEB flowing through a sensing resistor are calculated using a detection module and are summed together using a current summing unit. A voltage converted from the sum value of the off current value IOFF and the blanking current value ILEB is transmitted through an output stage in a predetermined time ratio of a cycle with the duty cycle determined by a logic control unit, in which the logic control unit controls the output stage to receive the voltage converted from sum current in a predetermined time period of each cycle, and prevents the output stage to receive the voltage converted from sum current in the remaining time other than such predetermined time period of each cycle.

Systems and methods for environmental monitoring of high activity facilities, generally comprising low profile devices having sensing elements for various environmental uses, designed to provide the wireless communications network as a basis for performing a wide variety of tasks. The devices may be installed on an existing electrical system and may measure, among other things, electrical current on various circuits.

Vertical sense devices in vertical trench MOSFET. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, an electronic circuit includes a vertical trench metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor configured for switching currents of at least one amp and a current sensing field effect transistor configured to provide an indication of drain to source current of the MOSFET. A current sense ratio of the current sensing FET is at least 15 thousand and may be greater than 29 thousand.

A shock detector having an electrical detector having a set of water immersible electrodes for detecting hazardous water conditions through the determination of the presence of either an electrical current in a body of water, a voltage in the body of water or a voltage gradient in the body of water and then providing an alert to the existence of hazardous electrical conditions in the body of water which in some cases may transmitted to a power source to shut off a power source thereby removing the hazardous water condition.

A method and apparatus for discriminating between electric field sources. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a mobile detection system comprising a sensor probe for remotely measuring an electric field generated by an electric field source in a patrolled area; and a processor, coupled to the sensor probe, for processing data received from the sensor probe to generate a first field strength and at least a second field strength for determining whether the electric field source is potentially hazardous.

The invention discloses a non-contact electroscope and an electroscopy and belongs to the field of electrical equipment. The electroscope comprises an inducing module, a distance measurement module and a processing module. The inducing module is used for detecting electric field intensity of an object to be detected. The distance measurement module is used for detecting the distance between the electroscope and the object to be detected. The processing module is used for judging whether the object to be detected is electrified or not according to the detected distance between the electroscope and the object to be detected and the detected electric field intensity. Due to the fact that the non-contact electroscope judges whether the object to be detected is electrified or not according to the electric field intensity of the object to be detected, the distance between the electroscope and the object to be detected and the corresponding relation between the distance and the electric field intensity, the situation that due to influences of the ambient environment, detection accuracy is low is avoided, detection accuracy is improved, and potential safety hazards are eliminated.

A phase current prediction method is disclosed. The phase current prediction method predicts current representative of a PWM period using a motor model which receives current measured through a single current sensor as an input, instead of the measured current, and determines the predicted current to be phase current.

The invention discloses an auxiliary mechanical arm for an electric power inspection unmanned aerial vehicle and a control system thereof. The auxiliary mechanical arm comprises an unmanned aerial vehicle bottom plate made of insulating epoxy resin, a turnover cross beam is hinged to the lower part of the unmanned aerial vehicle bottom plate, the turnover cross beam is internally insulated and rotationally connected with a rotating arm, a first steering engine providing turnover power for the turnover cross beam and the rotating arm is fixedly arranged at the bottom of the unmanned aerial vehicle bottom plate, and a second steering engine providing rotating power for the rotating arm is fixedly arranged at one end of the turnover cross beam. According to the auxiliary mechanical arm and the control system thereof, a carrying platform for various detection equipment is provided for the electric power inspection unmanned aerial vehicle, the functionality of the unmanned aerial vehicle inelectric power inspection operation is effectively improved, the situations of the protection of an unmanned aerial vehicle body and the influence of the unmanned aerial vehicle contact electrified part on the unmanned aerial vehicle are fully considered, and meanwhile, by means of a plurality of technical fields such as comprehensive communication, automatic control and an insulation technology,the maintenance operation of an overhead power transmission line by assisting the manual operation or replacing manual operation is completed.

The invention belongs to the field of high-tension distributing line electricity verification and ground lead and particularly relates to a robot system based on high-tension distributing line electricity testing and ground lead operation. The robot system comprises a robot body, wherein the robot body comprises a moving mechanism and a three-degree of freedom mechanical motion arm connected with each other and further comprises a control box mounted on the robot body; a control unit, a first power module and a first communication module are mounted in the control box; the first power module is connected with the control unit; the control unit is connected with a driving module; the driving module is connected with the moving mechanism and the three-degree of freedom mechanical motion arm; and the control unit is connected with a handheld control terminal and a ground control terminal through the first communication module. According to the invention, a robot is adopted to replace a field operation worker to finish electricity verification and ground lead operation, so that the field operation worker is prevented from dangerous and onerous electric power operation, and the defects that manual operation is low in degree of automation and high in labor strength and risk are overcome.

A tunable photonic crystal device comprises: alternating layers of a first material and a second material, the alternating layers comprising a responsive material, the responsive material being responsive to an external stimulus, the alternating layers having a periodic difference in refractive indices giving rise to a first reflected wavelength; wherein, in response to the external stimulus, a change in the responsive material results in a reflected wavelength of the device shifting from the first reflected wavelength to a second reflected wavelength.

A broadband communications system for providing radio frequency (RF) signals to subscriber equipment that includes an amplifier for amplifying the RF signals and for providing an indication of the presence of the RF signals. The amplifier includes an input for receiving the RF signals, a first gain circuit for amplifying the RF signals and providing amplified RF signals, and an output for providing the amplified RF signals to the subscriber equipment. An RF detector included within the amplifier where there is a tap circuit for diverting a portion of the amplified RF signals, the tap circuit connected between the first gain circuit and the output, a gain circuit for amplifying the diverted RF signals, a rectification circuit for converting the amplified diverted RF signal to a DC voltage, a comparator for comparing the DC voltage to a reference voltage, and an indicator connected to the comparator for indicating when the DC voltage exceeds the reference voltage, whereby the DC voltage exceeding the reference voltage indicates the presence of an RF signal.

A monitor circuit has a first detection module for detecting an input signal and for generating a first examining signal according to the input signal, a second detection module electrically connected to the first detection module for generating an output signal according to the first examining signal, and a control unit electrically connected to the first and the second detection modules selectively for controlling the second detection module to generate the output signal according to the first examining signal, for controlling the first detection module to monitor the output and to generate a second examining signal, or for comparing the first examining signal with the second examining signal so as to determine if the monitor circuit is functioning normally.

A distributed power supply system is configured to execute a process for determining whether or not to permit a diagnostic process in such a manner that it is determined whether or not a difference between a set upper limit value and an actual measurement current value is not less than a load current value, the set upper limit value being a predetermined upper limit value set with respect to a detected current of a current sensor, the measurement current value being detected by the current sensor in a state where the diagnostic process is not executed, and the load current value being a value of a current flowing from a commercial power utility to a power load during execution of the diagnostic process; and if it is determined that the difference is not less than the load current value, the controller permits the diagnostic process.