301 results about "DC block" patented technology

High voltage direct current systems to connect direct current energy sources to an alternating current system. In one aspect, a system includes a plurality of direct current modules having variable direct current inputs; an inverter; and a direct current bus to connect the direct current modules to the inverter, where the bus is configured to operate at a nominal voltage higher than 100 volts and to operate within 10 percent of the nominal operating voltage.

A converter has a transformer with primary and secondary windings each having n coils in a series-series arrangement connected to primary and secondary sides. The primary side has n primary legs each having a top switch and a bottom switch and connected to the primary winding therebetween. The secondary side has n secondary legs, each secondary leg has a synchronous rectifier switch and an output filter inductor connected to the secondary winding therebetween. A complimentary control for the primary side comprising a gate driver transformer with primary winding in series with a DC blocking capacitor connected to a drain and a source of the top switch of each primary leg, and a gate drive transformer, for each primary leg, with secondary winding containing a leakage inductor and in series with a DC blocking capacitor and a damping resistor connected to gate and source of the secondary side synchronous rectifier.

A surge protection device is disclosed that includes an input path for receiving an rf signal, dc power, and a surge, an output path for propagating the rf signal, and a dc blocking device coupled in series between the input path and the output path. The surge protection device also includes a first inductor coupled to the input path for isolating the rf signal and providing a path for the dc power, a gas tube coupled to the first inductor for routing a portion of the surge to a ground plane, a second inductor coupled to the first inductor for providing a path for the dc power, and a metal oxide varistor coupled to the second inductor for routing a portion of the surge to the ground plane. Furthermore, the surge protection device includes a third inductor coupled to the second inductor for providing a path for the dc power, a diode coupled to the third inductor for routing a portion of the surge to the ground plane, and a fourth inductor coupled to the third inductor for providing a path for the dc power to the output path.

There is provided a phased array antenna having variable phase shifters constituted by using a variable dielectric-constant dielectric substance whose dielectric constant varies according to an applied electric field, which antenna can dispense with a DC blocking element that causes mismatch, and reduce deformation of the beam shape even when beam tilt occurs, in the case where the variable phase shifters are divided into those for right-side tilt and those for left-side tilt and the phase shift amounts thereof are independently controlled.The phased array antenna is provided with a feeding phase shift unit (130) having a laminated structure obtained by laminating at least a ground conductor layer (117), an insulator layer (118), a main conductor layer (119), a variable dielectric-constant dielectric layer (120), and a sub conductor layer (121) in this order, and a propagation characteristic variable line (105) having a line on the sub conductor layer in an area which planarly overlaps a line on the main conductor layer is provided on the feeding phase shift unit. By applying a bias voltage between the main conductor layer and the sub conductor layer, the dielectric constant of the variable dielectric-constant dielectric substance in the propagation characteristic variable line area is varied to control the propagation characteristics. Thereby, a DC blocking element to be inserted in series into the feeding line can be dispensed with.

A surge protection device is disclosed that includes an input path for receiving an rf signal, dc power, and a surge, an output path for propagating the rf signal, and a dc blocking device coupled in series between the input path and the output path. The surge protection device also includes a first inductor coupled to the input path for isolating the rf signal and providing a path for the dc power, a gas tube coupled to the first inductor for routing a portion of the surge to a ground plane, a second inductor coupled to the first inductor for providing a path for the dc power, and a metal oxide varistor coupled to the second inductor for routing a portion of the surge to the ground plane. Furthermore, the surge protection device includes a third inductor coupled to the second inductor for providing a path for the dc power, a diode coupled to the third inductor for routing a portion of the surge to the ground plane, and a fourth inductor coupled to the third inductor for providing a path for the dc power to the output path.

An electrosurgical generator includes an RF output stage, a DC blocking capacitor, a measuring circuit, and a sensor circuit. The RF output stage generates electrosurgical energy for application to an active electrode. The DC blocking capacitor is electrically coupled between the RF output stage and the active electrode. The measuring circuit is coupled to the DC blocking capacitor and measures the voltage across the DC blocking capacitor. The sensor circuit determines the current of the electrosurgical energy as a function of the voltage across the DC blocking capacitor.

An apparatus and method for an improved chopping mixer (100) having a bipolar mixer stage (140) for mixing signals (lp, In, LOp, LOn) received thereby; an output chopping stage (160); and an AC coupling stage (150) for coupling the mixed signal to the output chopping stage. The signal prior to the chopping output stage is centered at the chopping clock frequency rather than DC. AC coupling allows removal of common mode signal in a desired frequency range. Also, the second order component present on each single ended output will also be DC blocked by the AC coupling capacitors, resulting in improved second order IP2 performance.

A surge protection device is disclosed that includes a conductor for receiving an rf signal and a dc current, a first shield having a lumen configured to accommodate at least a portion of the conductor, and a second shield having a lumen configured to accommodate the first shield so that a portion of the first shield is positioned within the lumen of the second shield. The surge protection device further includes a dc blocking device, coupled to the conductor, for attenuating the dc current, a device, coupled to the conductor, for diverting the dc current to the second shield, and a dielectric disposed between the first shield and the second shield for preventing the dc current from traveling from the second shield to the first shield.

A continuous grounding system for use in an alternating current system including a transformer is disclosed. The system includes a switch assembly connected between a transformer neutral of a transformer and a ground, the switch assembly having an open position and a closed position, the open position disrupting the path through the switch assembly between the electrical connection and the transformer neutral, and the closed position establishing a path connecting the electrical connection to the transformer neutral through the switch assembly, wherein in normal operation of the alternating current electrical device the switch assembly remains in a closed position. The system also includes a DC blocking component positioned in parallel with the switch assembly and connected between the transformer neutral and the ground. The system further includes a control circuit configured to control the switch assembly, the control circuit including a sensor configured to actuate the switch assembly to an open position upon detection of a predetermined harmonic signal threshold at one of the transformer phases or a predetermined threshold of DC current between the transformer neutral and ground.

The invention provides a method for defending periodic commutation failures of a one-tower double-circuit DC transmission system. The method comprises the following steps that (I) an inverter station determines a descent rate of voltage amplitude values according to instantaneous values of grid-side three-phase AC voltages; (II) changes of grid-side voltages are judged by using a sine and cosine component detecting method and a zero-order voltage method; (III) a turn-off angle added value and a turn-off angle returned time constant are determined by using a turn-off angle logic method, and a trigger angle is reduced through a turn-off angle controller; (IV) a rectification station puts instantaneous current control into a commutation failure recovery process. The method for defending the periodic commutation failures of the one-tower double-circuit DC transmission system can effectively prevent periodic commutation failures from occurring to a DC transmission system, and DC blocking accidents are prevented from occurring.

A surge protection device is disclosed that includes a conductor for receiving an rf signal and a dc current, a first shield having a lumen configured to accommodate at least a portion of the conductor, and a second shield having a lumen configured to accommodate the first shield so that a portion of the first shield is positioned within the lumen of the second shield. The surge protection device further includes a dc blocking device, coupled to the conductor, for attenuating the dc current, a device, coupled to the conductor, for diverting the dc current to the second shield, and a dielectric disposed between the first shield and the second shield for preventing the dc current from traveling from the second shield to the first shield.

Voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) has been widely used in radio frequency communication systems. In a typical VCO implementation, a pair of directly cross-coupled MOS transistors is used as a switching device and an LC resonant circuit is used to tune the desired frequency. The direct cross coupling of the MOS transistor pair will result in limited output voltage swing since a large swing may cause the MOS transistors into a linear region to increase phase noise. The VCO system to increase the output voltage swing according to one embodiment of the present invention includes DC-blocking capacitors to avoid direct cross coupling of the MOS pair. The VCO further includes circuit to provide bias for the gate voltage of the MOS pair. A method for increasing the output voltage swing is disclosed for a VCO system having LC resonant circuit. The method includes providing DC-blocked cross coupling from the drains of the cross-coupled transistor pair to the gates of the cross-coupled transistor pair. The method also includes providing an offset voltage to the gates of the cross-coupled transistor pair to reduce the maximum gate-to-drain voltage of a cross-coupled NMOS transistor pair or maximum drain-to-gate voltage of a cross-coupled PMOS transistor pair so that the cross-coupled transistor pair will work in a saturation region when the output voltage swing is increased.

The invention provides a monitoring method for the running state of a substation DC system, belonging to the measurement field. The monitoring method comprises the following steps of: detecting the bus voltage of the DC system, and comparing and outputting the overvoltage / undervoltage alarm signal; the DC component of the bus voltage is detected, meanwhile, the AC component Uac of the bus voltage is also detected by a DC block; the absolute value of the Uac' and the set value Uac'' are compared; if the absolute value of the Uac' is more than the Uac', the control unit outputs a ripple voltage over-limit alarming signal. The invention also provides a monitoring device used for monitoring the running state of the DC system. The monitoring method and the monitoring device realize the dual monitoring function on the DC system, have an effect of dual-use with one machine, provide more effectively ensuring for the safe and stable running of the DC system, reduce the number of the monitoring device, are beneficial to saving the cost of purchase and running and the maintenance workload of the system, and can be widely used for the field of the measurement, monitoring and safe running of the running state of the transformation and distribution DC system.

The mixer circuit is a singled ended input to a double balanced high dynamic range mixer with only two base-emitter junctions across the supply. It provides for the use of bondwires to off chip ground as DC block and DC feed elements. The single ended input and differential output balanced mixer is well suited for the input stage of an integrated radio receiver—off chip circuitry is usually single ended, but on chip circuits are usually differential. No off chip differential RF circuits or baluns are required which reduces off chip component count and improves radio performance. The mixer circuit has lower LO drive requirements because of the DC coupled LO port. This results in better radio performance and a smaller die area because of the DC coupled IF port.

This invention provides a voltage tunable filter comprising an input connection point, an output connection point, and at least one circuit branch electrically coupled to the input connection point and the output connection point and including a voltage tunable dielectric varactor electrically connected to an inductor. The voltage tunable filter can be one of a low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, or band-stop filter. The varactor can include built-in DC blocking capacitors.

The invention relates to an SOI (Silicon On Insulator) CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) RF (Radio Frequency) switch and an RF transmitter front-end module comprising the same. The SOI CMOS RF switch comprises a plurality of DC-blocking capacitors, a plurality of resistors and a plurality of switching tubes, wherein the switching tubes are SOI CMOS switching tubes, the drain electrode of each switching tube is connected to a channel control voltage through a resistor, the source electrode of each switching tube is connected to the channel control voltage through another resistor and connected with an antenna, and the channel control voltage is larger than 0 V and smaller than the difference of a high level and a threshold voltage of the switching tube. At the same moment, only one switching tube has a control signal at a high-level voltage, and the other switching tubes have control signals at the voltage of 0 V. The technical scheme provided by the invention simplifies the structure of the RF switch; and the RF switch can work under a signal power supply to ensure that the control signal voltage in a switching transistor in each SOI CMOS RF switch can be higher than the safe voltage of the transistor, thus the reliability of the RF switch is improved.

This invention discloses a bi-directional air intake pulse tube refrigerator, which contains compressor, heat exchanger at heat end of heat regenerator, cold heat, pulse tube, pulse tube heat end exchanger, small hole valve, air reservoir, corrugated pipe dc block structure in heat end of pulse tube, and capillary set between air inlet of heat regenerator and heat end of pulse tube. Said invention eliminates the influence of dc to refrigeration temperature and quantity, and operation stability.

The invention discloses a method for testing performance of different types of partial discharge detector mainframes based on analog voltage signal injection. A function generator with adjustable output frequency of 0-3.5 GHz and an adjustable output amplitude of 0-10 V is adopted in the method disclosed by the invention, and equivalent analog voltage signals generated by the function generator and based on partial discharge waveforms actually tested by a pulse current partial discharge detection sensor, an ultrasonic partial discharge detection sensor and an ultrahigh frequency partial discharge detection sensor are correspondingly and directly injected into the mainframes of a pulse current partial discharge detector, an ultrasonic partial discharge detector and an ultrahigh frequency partial discharge detector or through DC blocking elements with frequency bands of 10 kHz to 10 MHz. The method disclosed by the invention has the excellent advantages that the testing method is universal and standard, the testing result is reproducible and quantifiable, the range of application of testing objects is wide, the testing contents are comprehensive, and the like.

A radio frequency (RF) switch includes a common port, a first port, and a second port, a first semiconductor switching element disposed in a first RF pathway between the common port and the first port, a second semiconductor switching element disposed in a second RF pathway between the common port and the second port, a first pair of direct current (DC) blocking capacitors disposed to isolate the first semiconductor switching element in the first RF pathway, and a second pair of DC blocking capacitors disposed to isolate the second semiconductor switching element in the second RF pathway. The respective pairs of DC blocking capacitors allow for different bias voltages to be applied to the respective RF pathways. A charge-discharge circuit may also be employed to decrease transient switching time of the RF switch.

A continuous grounding system for use in an alternating current system including a transformer is disclosed. The system includes a switch assembly connected between a transformer neutral of a transformer and a ground, the switch assembly having an open position and a closed position, the open position disrupting the path through the switch assembly between the electrical connection and the transformer neutral, and the closed position establishing a path connecting the electrical connection to the transformer neutral through the switch assembly, wherein in normal operation of the alternating current electrical device the switch assembly remains in a closed position. The system also includes a DC blocking component positioned in parallel with the switch assembly and connected between the transformer neutral and the ground. The system further includes a control circuit configured to control the switch assembly, the control circuit including a sensor configured to actuate the switch assembly to an open position upon detection of a predetermined harmonic signal threshold at one of the transformer phases or a predetermined threshold of DC current between the transformer neutral and ground.

A radio frequency device and a wireless communication device. The radio frequency device contains a grounding assembly used for providing ground connection, an antenna which contains a radiator, a signal feed-in assembly for transmitting a radio-frequency signal to the radiator so as to transmit the radio-frequency signal through the radiator and a ground terminal for coupling the grounding assembly, a capacitive sensing assembly for sensing an environmental capacitance value within a specific range through the radiator, a first DC blocking assembly for blocking a DC signal path from a ground terminal of the antenna to the grounding assembly, a second DC blocking assembly for blocking a DC signal path from the radiator to the signal feed-in assembly of the antenna, and a high-frequency blocking assembly which is electrically connected between the radiator and the capacitive sensing assembly and is used for blocking a high-frequency signal path from the radiator to the capacitive sensing assembly. According to the invention, radiant efficiency is not influenced, design and production costs can be reduced, and it is beneficial to parts management. The radio-frequency device has characteristics of small size, high efficiency, high environmental suitability and low interference.

A power utilization information acquisition terminal detecting system comprises terminal conveying device and a detecting device. The terminal conveying device comprises a conveying line, a tooling plate, a jacking transplant, a bar-code scanner, a PLC (programmable logic controller) control system, a first lifter, a second lifter, a driving mechanism and a multilayer detecting bin. The detecting device comprises an automatic pressure jointing mechanism and terminal test equipment which are electrically connected, the terminal test equipment comprises a computer, a control box, a standard scale, a scale position controlling and testing module, a multifunctional tester, a pulse direct-current module, a grounded phase loss testing module, a carrier wave switching module, a carrier save attenuating module, a timer and a power source control module. By the aid of the power utilization information acquisition terminal detecting system, automatic conveying functions of three terminals can be realized, full automatic detecting function of the terminals can be realized, parallel tests to a plurality of centralized meter reading terminals and collector carrier channels can be realized with only one set of power source.

The invention discloses a coordination control and parameter optimization method for a multi-loop DC frequency limit controller. The coordination control and parameter optimization method adopts an online self-adaptive method, balances power fluctuations under a DC blocking fault of a multi-direct-current sending-end system through coordination and cooperation of a frequency limit controller of a multi-loop DC power transmission system, and improves stability of system frequency. The coordination control method for the multi-loop DC frequency limit controller can be applied to a power system dispatching control center. Compared with the prior art, the coordination control and parameter optimization method for the multi-loop DC frequency limit controller can exert the promotion effect of the multi-loop DC frequency limit controller on frequency stability during the system failure more effectively, has higher self-adaptive capability for power system operation methods, and has more effective and flexible control method.

A surge-protected coaxial termination includes a metallic outer body, a center conductor extending through a central bore of the outer body, and a spark gap created therebetween to discharge high-voltage power surges. A pair of dielectric support insulators support the center conductor on opposite sides of the spark gap. High impedance inductive zones surround the spark gap to form a T-network low pass filter that nullifies the additional capacitance of the spark gap. An axial, carbon composition resistor is disposed inside the outer body, and inside the dielectric insulator to absorb the RF signal, and prevent its reflection. The resistor extends co-axially with the center conductor, and one end of the resistor is electrically coupled thereto. A blocking chip capacitor extends radially from the opposite end of the resistor to the grounded outer body. The opposing second end of the resistive component may protrude from the metallic outer body and related dielectric material; the DC blocking capacitor preferably extends radially between the second end of the resistive component and the metallic outer body, or to a grounding post secured thereto.

The invention discloses a direct current magnetic leakage detecting system based on a triggered acquisition mode. The direct current magnetic leakage detecting system comprises a sensor array, a DC-block, an amplifying circuit, a filtering circuit, a triggering circuit, an acquisition card, and an industrial personal computer which are in serial connection sequentially, and also comprises a displacement sensor and a mileage encoder which are in serial connection with the triggering circuit sequentially, wherein the sensor array is provided with a 48-channel hall sensor, and every 16 channels are separately arranged in a radial routing inspection direction BX, a lateral direction BY and a direction BZ perpendicular to the surface of each steel rail; the acquisition card adopts a triggered acquisition mode, and a trigger signal of the acquisition card is provided by the triggering circuit; the triggering circuit is in series connection between the acquisition card and the filtering circuit, and performs threshold judging treatment on a 48-channel detecting voltage signal; the displacement sensor can measure a lift-off value between the sensor array and the surface of the measured steel rail; and the mileage encoder can acquire the routing inspection mileage of the railway steel rails. According to the direct current magnetic leakage detecting system disclosed by the invention, defect magnetic leakage detection can be performed under the condition with different routing inspection speeds, data is not liable to lose, the routing inspection mileage can be acquired and defects can be efficiently positioned.

A low-frequency band suppression enhanced anti-reversal power system stabilizer is presented by the invention. Currently the widely used PSS2B power system stabilizer needs lead elements above Order 2 to meet the phase compensation requirement of DC blocking signal of active power, thus quickly increasing high-frequency band gain, restricting allowable total setting gain of PSS, limiting low-band gain and reducing low-frequency band suppression ability of power system stabilizer. The invention will add generator speed signal ω (which is treated by DC blocking element and corrected by parallel proportional differential PD) and active power signal Pe (which is treated by DC blocking element and gained by gain factor Ks3) to get equivalent synthetic mechanical power of power system stabilizer. The actual active power signal gained by gain factor KS1 can meet the requirement of phase compensation through Order 1 lead and lag elements, thus increasing allowable total setting gain of PSS and improving the ability of low-frequency band oscillation suppression.

A novel coaxial DC block with circumferential capacitive shielding is presented. The coaxial DC block includes an inner DC block electrically couplable to a first inner conductor of a first length of coaxial cable and electrically couplable to a second inner conductor of a second length of coaxial cable. The inner DC block provides a capacitance which capacitively couples the first inner conductor to the second inner conductor and blocks a first frequency range of interest. The inner DC block is electrically sealed and shielded by a capacitive sleeve that is concentrically arranged to form a Faraday cage around the inner DC block. The capacitive sleeve is electrically couplable to a first outer conductor of the first length of coaxial cable and electrically couplable to a second outer conductor of the second length of coaxial cable. The capacitive sleeve forms a circumferential capacitance that electrically circumferentially couples the first outer conductor to the second outer conductor and blocks a second frequency range of interest.