314 results about "Voltage sensing" patented technology

The invention discloses an intelligent charging and discharging strategy optimization method for a ship battery, and particularly relates to the technical field of battery management. Propulsion power data, auxiliary equipment power data and environment disturbance parameters generated in the ship operation process are collected, a high-frequency time sequence working condition input sequence is built, a load nonlinear evolution model is built through a multi-scale dynamic modeling algorithm, and a disturbance perception prediction sequence is generated; a heterogeneous state characteristic matrix is constructed by combining historical charging and discharging state records of a target battery and current sensing data, voltage sensing data and temperature sensing data, and then the state of charge and the state of health of the battery are evaluated; generating a multi-dimensional strategy candidate set by constructing an energy scheduling constraint map according to the evaluation results of the state of charge and the state of health of the battery; and selecting an optimal strategy path from the multi-dimensional strategy candidate set, outputting a target charging and discharging control instruction, and realizing comprehensive optimization control of dynamic sensing, state driving and strategy self-adaption of the ship battery.

The invention belongs to the field of data processing, and particularly relates to a high-voltage direct-current electric field intensity measuring method and a related device. In the device, an optical fiber direct-current electric field sensor at least comprises a signal processing unit, an optical fiber voltage sensing head, a fixed electrode and a rotating electrode. The method comprises the following steps: deploying a measuring device in a space to be measured; the rotating electrode is controlled to rotate at a constant speed, so that the center distance between the fixed electrode and the rotating electrode is periodically changed along with the rotating track; collecting an alternating current signal voltage generated by an alternating potential difference between the fixed electrode and the rotating electrode in a constant-speed rotating process through an optical fiber voltage sensing head; and performing numerical processing on the alternating current signal voltage through a signal processing unit to obtain a measured value of the high-voltage direct current electric field intensity, and optimizing the measured value in combination with a physical compensation model and a data driving compensation model. The method can realize the measurement of the high-voltage direct-current space electric field intensity, improve the measurement accuracy and expand the measurement range.

A battery diagnosis apparatus for diagnosis of a cell group including a plurality of battery cells connected in series, includes a voltage sensing circuit configured to periodically generate a voltage signal indicating a cell voltage of each battery cell, and a control circuit configured to generate time series data indicating a change in cell voltage of each battery cell over time based on the voltage signal. The control circuit is configured to (i) determine a first average cell voltage and a second average cell voltage of each battery cell based on the time series data, wherein the first average cell voltage is a short term moving average, and the second average cell voltage is a long term moving average, and (ii) detect an abnormal voltage of each battery cell based on a difference between the first average cell voltage and the second average cell voltage.

The invention discloses a high-integration intelligent ignition head device and an automobile safety communication power supply system thereof. The device comprises an input unit, a power management module, a communication module, a communication judgment module, an MCU, a voltage sensing module, a current sensing module, an ignition control module, an ignition element and a substrate, and an environment self-adaption unit, a dual-mode wireless energy supply unit and an optical fiber diagnosis channel can be additionally arranged. The system adopts the device, communicates with a central control unit through a redundant optical fiber bus and a double-wire bus, and further comprises the central control unit, a dynamic topology reconstruction unit and a pre-ignition energy distribution unit. Through digital signal control, multi-dimensional sensing module integration and a double-wire bus topological structure, ignition threshold multi-stage protection, state real-time monitoring and feedback, multi-ignition-head parallel independent control and miniaturized function integration are achieved, and the reliability, the intelligent degree and the driving efficiency of an automobile safety system are improved.

Disclosed is a system for zero voltage switching in a power converter with a first half-bridge and a second half-bridge. The first half-bridge has a first set of transistors and output inductor. The second half-bridge has a second set of transistors and auxiliary inductor. A current sensing means measures, at switching cycle scale, average and maximum current values of output inductor and average, minimum and maximum current values of auxiliary inductor. A voltage sensing means measures input and output voltages of first and second half-bridge. A controller is configured to compute dead times of pulse width modulation control signal of second half-bridge, generate pulse width modulation control signal of second half-bridge and to adapt dead times of first half-bridge.

Aspects of the disclosure are directed to voltage sensing for safety-critical applications. In accordance with one aspect, the disclosure includes a multi-phase ring oscillator (RO) configured to operate in a first voltage domain; a frequency counter coupled to the multi-phase RO, the frequency counter configured to accumulate a plurality of phase cycles from the multi-phase RO over a time duration to generate a digital count word; an alarm processor coupled to the frequency counter, the alarm processor configured to receive an alarm state signal from the frequency counter; and a heartbeat detector coupled to the multi-phase RO, the heartbeat detector configured to operate in a second voltage domain and configured to detect a periodic recurrence of a heartbeat pulse to determine an integrity of the sensor function as a whole and alarm state signal in particular.

The invention relates to the technical field of overvoltage monitoring, in particular to a wide-frequency-domain overvoltage online monitoring system and method for electric power high-voltage equipment. Comprising an electric field sensor array, an acquisition unit, a calculation unit and an output unit, the electric field sensor array comprises a plurality of sensors which are radially distributed on the same circumferential plane and have different measuring ranges and sensitivities, and sensors which are axially distributed; the electric field sensor comprises a sensing unit and a fiber bragg grating temperature measuring unit; the fiber bragg grating temperature measuring unit is suitable for measuring the temperature of the sensing unit; the acquisition unit is suitable for synchronously acquiring the emergent light intensity of the sensing unit and the temperature data of the fiber grating temperature measurement unit. The multi-range sensors distributed in the radial direction achieve wide-range and high-sensitivity voltage sensing through differential design, the intrusion direction of overvoltage can be determined through cooperation of the axial sensors and the radial sensors, and the problem that the range and sensitivity of a single electric field sensor are mutually restricted is solved.

The application provides a pressure signal fitting method and device, the method comprises: applying pressure to each sensing point in a pressure sensor, measuring the relationship between pressure and resistance of each sensing point, and integrating to obtain the pressure-resistance relationship; the pressure-resistance relationship is corrected through a numerical filtering algorithm, and the corrected pressure-resistance relationship is fitted to obtain an optimized pressure-resistance relationship; the switching of the voltage sensing circuit sensing points is carried out through an integrated analog electronic switch, the voltage of the stressed multiple array sensing points is measured; the resistance of the multiple array sensing points is calculated according to the measured voltage combined with the acquisition circuit; and the pressure of the multiple array sensing points is calculated through the optimized pressure-resistance relationship; based on the area of the stress area and the non-stress area of the multiple array sensing points, the actual stress of the multiple array sensing points is calculated through the relationship between force and pressure.

A power conversion system includes: a rectifier for rectifying an AC input voltage to generate a rectified voltage; a power stage circuit coupled to the rectifier; a sensing circuit coupled between a multiplex pin and either the AC input voltage or the rectified voltage and configured to generate a multiplexed sensing signal; and a control circuit for performing operations for over-temperature protection and brown-out protection during respective over-temperature and brown-out protection periods based on the status of the multiplexed sensing signal. The control circuit includes: the multiplex pin; and a current source and a bias switch, serially coupled to the multiplex pin. During the over-temperature protection period, the bias switch is conductive to provide a bias current to the sensing circuit to generate a temperature sensing signal. Outside the over-temperature protection period, the bias switch is non-conductive to stop providing the bias current, thereby generating an input voltage sensing signal.

The invention discloses an all-digital PVT sensor based on a ring oscillator, and relates to the field of PVT sensors, the all-digital PVT sensor comprises a process sensing circuit, a voltage sensing circuit and a temperature sensing circuit, the process sensing circuit comprises a process detection ring oscillator, the voltage sensing circuit comprises a voltage detection ring oscillator, and the temperature sensing circuit comprises a temperature detection ring oscillator. The temperature sensing circuit comprises a temperature sensitive ring oscillator; under the control of an enable signal, the process detection ring oscillator, the voltage detection ring oscillator and the temperature-sensitive ring oscillator start oscillation, and the process corner, the temperature and the power supply voltage of the detected chip are determined based on the oscillation frequencies of the process detection ring oscillator, the voltage detection ring oscillator and the temperature-sensitive ring oscillator. The PVT sensor is completely realized based on a digital circuit, an additional analog module does not need to be introduced, the area overhead is greatly reduced, and the PVT sensor has remarkable area advantage and structural simplicity while the high-precision detection capability is maintained.

The present disclosure relates to the technical field of display, and provides an ambient light detection circuit and method, and a display device. The ambient light detection circuit is used for ambient light detection of a display panel. The detection circuit comprises: a plurality of sensing modules, which are used for collecting ambient light and outputting current sensing signals based on the ambient light; a plurality of current conversion modules, which are arranged correspondingly to the plurality of sensing modules, and are used for converting the current sensing signals output by the sensing modules connected thereto into voltage sensing signals; a plurality of storage modules, which are arranged correspondingly to the plurality of current conversion modules, and are used for storing the voltage sensing signals output by the current conversion modules connected thereto in response to a sampling control signal; and a control module, which is connected to the storage modules respectively, and is used for synchronously outputting the sampling control signal to each of the storage modules.

According to certain embodiments, a switch cover comprises a panel with a hole, wherein the hole is configured to receive a rocker, wherein the rocker selectively controls an electrical connection between a first line and a second line; a voltage sensor disposed on the panel and configured to induce a current from an electrical field generated by electrical power transmitted over the electrical connection between the first line and the second line; and an antenna disposed on the panel and configured to transmit a radio signal in response to induction of the current in the voltage sensor.

A thermostat with voltage and current sensing capability is coupled directly to an HVAC unit and provides low latency failure detection and control using an on-board CPU. The thermostat can be configured to detect failure modes using current and voltage sensing and to make autonomous decisions to control the HVAC in response to such measurements.

A system (12) for a vehicle, an assembly (10), and a method for detecting a connection state of a switching device (62) of a charging circuit (56) are provided. The system (12) comprises at least one stator coil (30) of an electric machine (18), an inverter (16), and a charging circuit (56). The inverter (16) is configured to be coupled to a battery (14) of the vehicle. The charging circuit (56) is configured to be coupled to a charging device external to the vehicle. The charging circuit (56) is further configured for adapting a charging program of the battery (14) of the vehicle. The charging circuit (56) comprises at least a capacitor (64) and the switching device (62). The switching device (62) is arranged between the capacitor (64) and the stator coil (30). A single voltage sensing element (66) is arranged between the switching device (62) of the charging circuit (56) and a star point (60) of the electric machine (18). A control circuit (36) is configured to detect the connection state of the switching device (62) of the charging circuit (56) based on a voltage magnitude measured by the voltage sensing element (66).

Embodiments relate to a display device and driving method thereof. A display device includes a display panel including a pixel arranged thereon, a gate driving circuit configured to supply a scan signal to the pixel, a power control unit configured to output a gate driving voltage to the gate driving circuit, a sensing unit configured to sense an input electric signal and output sensing data, and a timing controller configured to control operations of the gate driving circuit.

A current sensing device is provided, including: a laminate having a plurality of insulating layers laminated therein; a current sensing element provided in an inner layer of the laminate; a current wire configured to flow current to the current sensing element, the current wire being provided above an interlayer insulating layer with respect to the current sensing element; a plurality of current vias configured to connect the current sensing element and the current wire in such a manner as to penetrate the interlayer insulating layer; and a voltage sensing via configured to obtain a voltage drop in the current sensing element, the voltage sensing via being electrically connected to the current sensing element.

A detector circuit includes a parametric resonator circuit comprising a first varactor and a second varactor disposed in a loop. The parametric resonator has a conductor disposed between the first varactor and the second varactor. The detector circuit further includes a voltage sensing resonator circuit aligned on the parametric resonator circuit so that at least a first portion of the resonator circuit is disposed in the loop and a second portion is disposed outside the loop in an axial view.

A switch may be added to an AC charge path of an EV charge system. A controller may operate the switch and other switches. The controller may direct a traction battery to pre-charge a capacitor of an AC filter in the AC charge path before connecting the AC charge path between the traction battery and a power source. In embodiments including voltage sensing, the controller may track the power source voltage and command a voltage of the AC charge path to follow the power source voltage before connecting the AC charge path between the traction battery and the power source. After pre-charging, the controller may track the power source voltage and command the AC charge path connect between the traction battery and the power source at a zero-crossing of the voltage of power source.

Circuit embodiments for a switched-capacitor power converter, and / or methods of operation of such a converter, that robustly deal with various startup scenarios, are efficient and low cost, and have quick startup times to steady-state converter operation. Embodiments prevent full charge pump capacitor discharge during shutdown of a converter and / or rebalance charge pump capacitors during a startup period before switching operation by discharging and / or precharging the charge pump capacitors. Embodiments may include a dedicated rebalancer circuit that includes a voltage sensing circuit coupled to an output voltage of a converter, and a balance circuit configured to charge or discharge each charge pump capacitor towards a target steady-state multiple of the output voltage of the converter as a function of an output signal from the voltage sensing circuit indicative of the output voltage. Embodiments prevent or limit current in-rush to a converter during a startup state.

A display device includes a pixel that has a first transistor having a drain electrode that is connected to a first power voltage node and a source electrode that is connected to a second power voltage node, a second transistor connected between a data line and a gate electrode of the first transistor, and a third transistor connected between a sensing line and the source electrode of the first transistor, a data driver applying a bias voltage to the data line during a sensing period, a sensing driver sensing an electrical characteristic of the pixel through the sensing line during the sensing period, and a controller for adjusting the bias voltage according to the first power voltage according to input image data.

The invention relates to a voltage sensing device with a micro-electro-mechanical element. The voltage sensing device comprises a micro-electro-mechanical sensing element, a transimpedance amplifying circuit and a differentiating circuit, the micro-electro-mechanical sensing element is used for sensing an input voltage to generate a sensing current. The transimpedance amplification circuit is connected to the output end of the micro-electro-mechanical sensing element to receive the sensing current and convert the sensing current into an amplification voltage. The differentiating circuit is connected to the transimpedance amplifying circuit and used for receiving the amplified voltage and differentiating the amplified voltage to generate a differential signal, and the differential signal indicates whether the input voltage has a sudden change state or not and indicates the time point when the input voltage suddenly changes.

The application discloses a four-electrode voltammetry oil product acid-base value detection circuit design method, and belongs to the technical field of electrochemical detection. The method comprises the following steps: designing a four-electrode system, a controllable current source, a voltage sensing unit and a regulation circuit to form a complete oil product acid-base value detection circuit. The four-electrode system comprises an auxiliary electrode, a working electrode and two reference electrodes; the controllable current source outputs an excitation current and injects the excitation current into a detection solution through the auxiliary electrode and the working electrode; the voltage sensing unit collects a response potential difference of the detection solution through the two reference electrodes; the regulation circuit adjusts the output excitation current of the controllable current source in a current scanning or voltage scanning mode and synchronously collects the response potential difference, constructs a voltammetry curve between the excitation current and the response potential difference, and calculates a reaction peak area parameter and a corresponding acid-base value of the measured oil product. The application can overcome the problem caused by the working electrode potential drift of the traditional three-electrode type oil product acid-base value detection circuit, and thus stable and accurate detection results are obtained.

A battery pack comprises a storage battery, several switches, a voltage sensing circuit, and a diagnostic circuit. The storage battery has several battery cells connected in series. The switches correspond to the respective battery cells and are each located in a first parallel path of a corresponding battery cell. The voltage sensing circuit is configured to detect the voltages across the switches as multiple cell voltages corresponding to the respective battery cells. The diagnostic circuit is configured to activate one or more of the switches within a predetermined time period and to perform a diagnostic process based on a voltage sensing circuit reading before and after the predetermined time period.

The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for determining the torque applied to a long shaft of a motor. A three-phase motor has a shaft, a main rotor-stator assembly and two sense stator-rotor assemblies. A control circuit applies three phase power to cables connected to the assemblies. At a measurement circuit, time-varying voltages on the cables are measured, which include the voltage induced due to the two sense rotor-stator assemblies. The sense assemblies differ from the main motor assembly to induce additional, small voltages into the electrical circuit. A transformation is applied to these signals to determine the main frequencies, amplitudes, and phases of the different signals. Using the phase differences among the voltages induced by the first and second sense rotor-stator assemblies and the main rotor-stator assembly, the torque on the shaft may be determined.

The motor drive device comprises: a pre-charge resistor that suppresses an inrush current during the pre-charging of a capacitor provided at a DC intermediate stage on the DC output side of an inverter; a pre-charge switch connected in parallel to the pre-charge resistor; a voltage sensing unit that detects the value of an input voltage; an input switching unit that selectively switches the voltage to be input to the voltage sensing unit between a first voltage, which is a voltage of the pre-charge resistor, and a second voltage, which is a voltage other than the voltage of the pre-charge resistor; and a fault detection unit that determines, based on the voltage value detected by the voltage sensing unit, whether or not there is a fault in the pre-charge switch.

The invention provides a direct current motor driving system integrating remote measurement and safety control, and relates to the technical field of motor driving and control, and the system comprises a PWM signal conditioning circuit which receives and conditions a PWM signal and is originally compatible with Pixhawk; the bidirectional polarity control circuit realizes positive and negative rotation of the motor through an optical isolation solid-state relay; the H-bridge driving circuit modulates the current of the motor; the current and voltage sensing circuit is used for generating current and voltage analog signals; the step-down conversion circuit supplies power to the flight controller; the logic level conversion interface is used for realizing 3.3 V / 5V level conversion; the telemetering output circuit outputs the analog signal to a flight controller ADC and transmits the analog signal to a ground station through MAVLink; and the fault protection circuit is used for triggering protection during overcurrent, overvoltage or undervoltage. Through the integrated design, the problems that a traditional driving module is poor in compatibility and lacks telemetering and protection are solved, and plug-and-play, state sensing, safe and reliable integrated driving is achieved.

A water-quality detection apparatus includes a detection chamber device, a pump module, a light source, a light sensor and a controller. The pump module is configured to transport a to-be-tested liquid and a reagent to a detection chamber of the detection chamber device. The light source emits detection light to the detection chamber. The light sensor senses the detection light traveling through the detection chamber and generates a detection voltage. The controller performs the following procedures: a voltage sensing procedure, a dilution determination procedure, a dilution procedure and a concentration acquisition procedure. The dilution determination procedure may calculate a voltage ratio between the detection voltage value and a basic-voltage value. When the voltage ratio is greater than a critical value, the concentration acquisition procedure is performed. When the voltage ratio is not greater than the critical value, the dilution procedure is performed.

Provided is a voltage sense IC that is mounted on a PCB substrate to detect a power supply voltage, the voltage sense IC being capable of reducing the area of the PCB substrate and reducing the types of mounted components. A semiconductor device includes: a first input terminal connected to one potential of a voltage to be monitored; a second input terminal connected to another potential of the voltage to be monitored; a voltage dividing resistor that divides a voltage between the first input terminal and the second input terminal; a polarity switching unit connected to the voltage dividing resistor; and an amplifier circuit connected to the polarity switching unit. The polarity switching unit switches polarities of a first path and a second path from the voltage dividing resistor provided between the voltage dividing resistor and the amplifier circuit to the amplifier circuit based on polarity setting information.

The described embodiments include a protection circuit comprising a voltage attenuation circuit with an input coupled to a switch terminal. A filter circuit has a filter input coupled to the output of the attenuation element. A first transistor has a first current terminal coupled to a power supply terminal and a first control terminal coupled to the filter output. A second transistor, matched to the first transistor, has a third current terminal coupled to the first current terminal, a second control terminal coupled to the first control terminal, and a fourth current terminal coupled to a first voltage sensing terminal. A buffer circuit has a buffer input coupled to the attenuation output.A S / H circuit has a sampling input coupled to the buffer output and a sampling output that provides a minimum ringing voltage of a signal from the switch terminal.

A lamp control method, a chip, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, a computer program, and an electronic device are provided. The lamp control method comprises acquiring a present working state of a lamp; determining a control priority of a voltage sensing function block and a control priority of a timing function block based on the present working state of the lamp to obtain a priority result; controlling the lamp to work based on the priority result. When the lamp is in the operating state, the control priority of the timing function block is configured to be higher than the control priority of the voltage sensing function block, such that the lamp is controlled to work based on the preset timing strategy, avoiding interference from other external light sources.