2795 results about "Current loop" patented technology

An implantable battery powered leadless pacemaker or biostimulator is provided that may include any of a number of features. One feature of the biostimulator is that it safely operates under a wide range of MRI conditions. One feature of the biostimulator is that it has a total volume small enough to avoid excessive image artifacts during a MRI procedure. Another feature of the biostimulator is that it has reduced path lengths between electrodes to minimize tissue heating at the site of the biostimulator. Yet another feature of the biostimulator is that a current loop area within the biostimulator is small enough to reduce an induced current and voltage in the biostimulator during MRI procedures. Methods associated with use of the biostimulator are also covered.

An artificial medium on which two or more conductive surfaces are provided in a thickness direction, the conductive surface being provided with conductive elements in a two-dimensional periodic array, wherein when an electromagnetic wave propagated in parallel to the thickness direction is incident on the artificial medium, a current excited by the electromagnetic wave increases in an operation frequency, and a current loop is formed in a surface parallel to the thickness direction is provided.

A first flux-loop inductive coupler element electrically couples with a second flux-loop inductive coupler element. The first flux-loop inductive coupler element comprises a first ring-like core having high magnetic permeability and a conical-section annular first face transverse to the plane of the first core. The first face has a first annular groove separating a first conical-section larger-diameter face and a first conical-section smaller-diameter face. A first coil is wound within the annular groove. The first and second cores form a low-reluctance closed magnetic path around the first coil and a second coil of the second flux-loop inductive coupler element.

A first current-loop inductive coupler element electrically couples with a second current-loop inductive coupler element. The first current-loop inductive coupler element has a first high-conductivity, low-permeability shaped belt of a first end of a first pipe joint, a first ring-like core located at the first end, and a first electrically conductive coil wound about the first ring-like core. The first high-conductivity, low-permeability shaped belt partially encloses the first coil. It is shaped to cooperate with the second high-conductivity, low-permeability shaped belt of an adjacent second pipe joint having a second electrically conductive coil and a second high-conductivity, low-permeability shaped belt to create a closed toroidal electrical conducting path. The closed toroidal electrical conducting path encloses the first coil and the second coil when the first and second pipe joints are mated.

System and method for processing a safety signal in an autonomous vehicle. Safety signals are typically generated in response to the detection of unsafe conditions or are sent by the vehicle operator. In either case, the safety signals are conveyed using redundant communication paths. The paths include a computer network and a current loop. The safety signals are processed, thereby causing actuators (e.g., linkages) to manipulate input devices (e.g., articulation controls and drive controls, such as a throttle, brake, tie rods, steering gear, throttle lever, accelerator, or transmission shifter). The manipulation ensures the vehicle responds appropriately to the safety signals, for example, by shutting down the vehicle.

A fly-back power converter has a current-estimating control loop that senses the primary output current in a transformer to control the secondary output. A primary-side control circuit switches primary current through the transformer on and off. A discharge time when a secondary current through an auxiliary winding of the transformer is flowing is generated by sampling a voltage divider on an auxiliary loop for a knee-point. A normalized duty cycle is calculated by multiplying the discharge time by a current that is proportional to the switching frequency and comparing to a sawtooth signal having the switching frequency. The peak of a primary-side voltage is sensed from the primary current loop and converted to a current and multiplied by the normalized duty cycle to generate an estimated current. An error amp compares the estimated current to a reference to adjust the oscillator frequency and peak current to control primary switching.

A single stage switch mode power converter receives a supply line voltage and a supply line current from a power supply line, and provides one or more regulated output voltages for a load, such as an amplifier. The power converter is operable to regulate the output voltage(s) using a controller that includes a voltage controlled current loop. The controller can enable substantially constant supply line current to be drawn from the power supply line by selectively allowing conduction of the supply line current through the power converter. A power factor of the supply line voltage and the supply line current may be optimized by the controller at medium to high power levels thereby maximizing the power provided to the switch mode power converter from the power supply line. Due to the adaptive nature of the controller, the power converter can operate over a wide range of supply line voltage.

An atomizer switch device provided in a disposable electronic cigarette comprises a key-switch (1), a battery (3) and a heating unit (2). The key switch (1) is provided on the housing of the disposable electronic cigarette and connected in series in the current loop comprising the battery (3) and the heating unit (2). The cost of the disposable electronic cigarette is decreased by using the atomizer switch device.

An illumination system includes a master power supply providing power to several illumination modules. The master power supply is constructed and arranged to generate high-frequency and low-voltage electrical power provided to a primary wire forming a current loop. Each illumination module includes an electromagnetic coupling element and several light sources. The electromagnetic coupling element includes a magnetic core arranged to receive the current loop in a removable arrangement, and a secondary wire wound around the magnetic core to enable inductive coupling. The secondary wire is connected to provide current to the light sources that may be arranged in the illumination module as a DC load or an AC load.

Methodologies and structures are disclosed for providing multilayer electronic devices having low inductance and high ratings, such as for capacitor devices for uses involving faster pulsing and higher currents. Plural layer devices are constructed for relatively lowered inductance by relatively altering typical orientation of capacitors such that their electrodes are placed into a vertical position relative to an associated circuit board. Optionally, individual leads may be formed so that the resulting structure can be used as an array. Internal electrodes may be arranged for reducing current loops for associated circuits on a circuit board, to correspondingly reduce the associated inductance of the circuit board mounted device. Leads associated with such devices may have added tab-like structures which serve to more precisely place the lead, to improve the lead to capacitor strength, and to promote lower resistance and inductance. Disclosed designs for reducing associated inductance may be practiced in conjunction with various electric devices, including capacitors, resistors, inductors, or varistors.

A digital current-mode controller for a DC-DC converter is disclosed. The controller comprises a digital current reference; and a current loop compensator adapted to receive a digital current error signal derived from a digital current sample sensed from the DC-DC converter and the digital current reference and to generate a duty-cycle command, wherein the current loop compensator comprises a low-pass filter that is used in generating the duty-cycle command. A DC-DC regulator comprising a digital current-mode controller and a method of controlling a DC-DC converter are also disclosed.

The invention discloses a charging system for an unmanned aircraft. The charging system is characterized by comprising a power-taking device, an electric energy transmitting device, an electric energy receiving device and an aircraft-mounted battery, wherein an overhead transmission line is arranged on the power-taking device; the electric energy transmitting device is for converting power frequency alternating current into high-frequency alternating current; the electric energy receiving device is arranged on the unmanned aircraft; electric energy transmission is realized in a wireless manner between the electric energy receiving device and the electric energy transmitting device; the aircraft-mounted battery is arranged on the unmanned aircraft, is used for supplying power to the unmanned aircraft, and is connected in series to a current loop of the electric energy receiving device. Compared with the prior art, an electric unmanned aircraft charging system based on an alternating-current power transmission overhead line provided by the invention has the advantages that a full-autonomous and safe charging way is realized for the unmanned aircraft, and the distance per charge of the unmanned aircraft is prolonged. Meanwhile, a high-frequency inductive constant-current charging circuit based on an unstable alternating-current power supply is provided, so that unmanned charging operation is fully realized, the dependence of the unmanned aircraft on a ground base or a mobile base station is reduced, labor operation is reduced, and labor cost is reduced.

An antenna apparatus including a metal layer, a first planar antenna, a second planar antenna and a conducting wire is provided. The first planar antenna has a first ground terminal electrically connected to the metal layer. The second planar antenna has a second ground terminal electrically connected to the metal layer. The conducting wire is connected between the first planar antenna and the second planar antenna. In the whole operation, electromagnetic signals transmitted by the first planar antenna and the second planar antenna are in the same frequency band, and the coupling effect of the first planar antenna and the second planar antenna is reduced along with the formation of a current loop of the conducting wire.

An excessive voltage protection system for a variable frequency generating system detects single point failures in a generator control unit and prevents excessive voltages at a point of regulation (POR) in the system. The generator control unit is designed to detect failures, such as a loss of three-phase sensing capability, switch failure in the exciter drive circuit, and/or exciter current loop failure. If a failure occurs, the generator control unit stops operation of the exciter drive circuit, preventing the voltage at the POR from rising to undesirable levels.

The invention relates to an estimation and compensation method for unbalanced moment of an aerial remote sensing inertially stabilized platform, which comprises the following steps: estimating the unbalanced moment of the platform according to the acceleration of the platform and the current information of a moment motor measured in real time; then calculating the current value of the moment motor required for offsetting the unbalanced moment; and compensating the current value on current setting of a current loop of the moment motor, so that the moment motor outputs resisting moment which is of equal size and in opposite direction to the unbalanced moment to inhibit the disturbance of the unbalanced moment of the stable platform, reduce the requirement for the moment rigidity of the stabilized platform and increase the stabilization accuracy of the stabilized platform. The invention has the characteristics of good stability and high precision and is suitable for aerial remote sensing inertially stabilized platforms with unbalanced moment for tracking the local geographical level.

The invention discloses a permanent magnet motor system with a shared bus structure and an open winding. The permanent magnet motor system comprises a permanent magnet synchronous motor, two current inverters, a direct-current power supply and a controller. The permanent magnet synchronous motor is of an open winding structure. The current inverters are voltage source type three-phase full-bridge inverters. The direct-current sides of the two current inverters are connected to the same direct-current power supply. Due to the fact that the direct-current sides of the two current inverters are connected directly, three current loops are formed in the structure. The invention further discloses a control method for suppressing a zero-sequence current of the permanent magnet motor system. According to the control method, a voltage compensator is designed for correcting the given voltage of the current inverters so that the zero-sequence current can be reduced substantially. According to the permanent magnet motor system, since the two current inverters share the same direct-current power supply, the structure is simple, cost is low, and operating performance and efficiency are high under the condition that the zero-sequence current is well suppressed.

A full-bridge rectifier is configured to provide synchronous rectification with either a current-source or a voltage-source. The rectifier has an upper branch and a lower branch and two current loops, with each of the branches including voltage- or current-controlled active switches, diodes or combinations thereof that are selected such that each loop includes one active switch or diode from the upper branch and one active switch or diode from the lower branch, and each current loop comprises at least one diode or current-controlled active switch, and at least one voltage- or current-controlled active switch is included in one of the upper or lower branches.

The invention discloses a grid-connected current control method for a combined single-phase two-stage photovoltaic generation system. The single-phase photovoltaic generation system is of a two-stage structure and comprises a first-stage BOOST up circuit link and a second-stage single-phase full-bridge inverter circuit link. The single-phase full-bridge inverter circuit link adopts a double-closed-loop control strategy and comprises an outer loop which is a direct-current bus voltage loop and an inner loop which is a grid-connected current loop and further utilizes voltage forward feed control of a power grid. The BOOST up circuit link is used for realizing boosting voltage of a photovoltaic battery module to a direct-current bus voltage reference value while realizing maximum power point tracking. Besides, the single-phase full-bridge inverter circuit link is used for realizing stabilization of the direct-current bus voltage and synchronization of frequency and phase of system output current and voltage of the power grid. The grid-connected current control method for the combined single-phase two-stage photovoltaic generation system has the advantages of excellent stability, flexibility in dynamic response, low content of low-order harmonics, high interference resistance, good robustness, high reliability and the like.

The present invention relates to the technical field of electrical engineering and discloses a PRBS disturbance injection-based power grid impedance online identification device. The device is mainly composed of a grid-connected inverter, a current loop controller, a sampling device and an impedance identification unit. The device is characterized in that the grid-connected inverter is connected with the current loop controller. When the grid-connected state is stable, the grid-connected inverter injects the PRBS disturbance into the power grid. During the injection process of a PRBS signal, a built-in output voltage THD is fed back to the controller, so that the THD value of the output voltage of the inverter is ensured to be smaller than 5%. The sampling device is connected with the PCC part of the power grid and is used for sampling and recording the voltage and the current at the PCC part of the power grid. The impedance identification unit is used for subjecting the sampled data of the sampling device to DFT analysis, and taking the average value of the amplitude and the average value of the phase of each harmonic component of the voltage and the current during the current sampling period. The method of the invention is high in precision, high in speed, strong in real-time property, wide in frequency range, lower in measuring cost and difficulty, and better in stability.

The invention discloses a bunched electrode high-speed discharge processing method in the technical field of arc discharge processing. A bunched electrode is fixedly connected with a spindle of a machine tool, the end surface of the bunched electrode faces to a workpiece to be processed on an operating platform of the machine tool, and the workpiece can be immersed in a water-based operating fluid provided by a water-based operating fluid supply system; then a fluid loop is formed by the water-based operating fluid supply system, the bunched electrode and a machine tool operating fluid trough, and a current loop is formed by a discharge source, the bunched electrode, the interelectrode broken-down water-based operating fluid and the workpiece to be processed; the water-based operating fluid between the bunched electrode and the workpiece to be processed is circulated through the water-based operating fluid supply system; the bunched electrode is connected with the negative electrode of the discharge source, the workpiece to be processed is connected with the positive electrode of the discharge source, and direct current or pulse current is applied by the discharge source to form short arc discharge, so that the high-speed discharge processing is realized. The invention realizes strengthened high pressure and large flow fluid filling in multiple holes by utilizing the bunched electrode, ensures short arc discharge processing by applying a fluid hydrodynamic force arc-breaking mechanism and is a method capable of simply, conveniently and economically realizing the high-speed discharge processing of the bunched electrode, particularly the processing of curves and mold cavities.