G01R19/2509

CIRCUITRY DISTORTION CORRECTOR, MEASUREMENT DEVICE, CORRECTION DATA GENERATOR, AND CORRECTION METHOD
20220200706 · 2022-06-23 ·

The present disclosure provides a circuitry distortion corrector for correcting distortions of electrical signals. The circuitry distortion corrector comprises a first correction filter that filters the received signals, and a second correction filter that is coupled to the first correction filter and filters the signals that are filtered by the first correction filter. The first correction filter operates based on first filter coefficients that are based on first value tuples, each first value tuple comprising a first frequency and a respective first circuitry characterizing value, and wherein the first frequencies are equally spaced apart, and the second correction filter operates with second filter coefficients that are based on second value tuples, each second value tuple comprising a second frequency and a respective second circuitry characterizing value, wherein the second frequencies are logarithmically spaced apart.

MEASUREMENT METHOD WITH SYNCHRONOUS SUBSAMPLING
20220185247 · 2022-06-16 ·

An electronic circuit (12) connected to a variable-excitation sensor (24) and comprising: a digital envelope detector (20) arranged to acquire signal that is produced by the sensor in response to an excitation signal, the detector comprising: an analog-to-digital converter (22) arranged to sample the measurement signal in such a manner as to produce sample points during successive observation windows of duration T that comprise a number N.sub.S of sample points, the sample points being spaced apart by a sampling period T.sub.S, the sampling period T.sub.S and the duration T being such that:


T.sub.S=N.sub.P.Math.T.sub.0+(N.sub.T/N.sub.S).Math.T.sub.0 and T=N.sub.S.Math.T.sub.S,

where T.sub.0 is one excitation period of the excitation signal, where N.sub.P, N.sub.T, and N.sub.S are non-zero natural integers, and where N.sub.T is not a multiple of N.sub.S.

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION AND TRACKING USING CURRENT

The present disclosure relates to systems and methods tracking an alternating current frequency in an electric power system. In one embodiment, a system may include a waveform receiving subsystem to receive a representation of a current waveform. A sampling subsystem may sample the representation of a current waveform at a first estimated frequency and generate a sampled representation of the current waveform. A filtered and sampled representation of the current waveform may be generated using a filter subsystem. A period subsystem may determine an estimated period of the filtered and sampled representation of the current waveform. A frequency determination subsystem may determine a second estimated frequency based on the estimated period. The second estimated frequency may then be used by the sampling subsystem in a subsequent iteration to sample a subsequent representation of the current waveform.

Facility state monitoring system, analysis apparatus, method, and program
11346867 · 2022-05-31 · ·

A measurement apparatus that measures a facility of a measurement target and that is able to transmit measurement data as intermittent data and an analysis apparatus. An analysis apparatus includes: a communication part that receives the intermittent data from the measurement apparatus; and an analysis part that estimates a standard data pattern serving as a reference, based on a common portion between a pair of the data in a set of the intermittent data received and determines presence of an anomaly for intermittent data of a determination target received from the measurement apparatus by referring to the standard data pattern.

RIPPLE DETECTION DEVICE AND RIPPLE SUPPRESSION DEVICE

A ripple detection device and a ripple suppression device. The ripple detection device includes: a ripple sampling unit, at least two DC sampling units, and a digital signal processing unit; the ripple sampling unit outputs a first voltage signal at an output port of a non-isolated DC/DC bidirectional energy conversion unit to the digital signal processing unit; the DC sampling unit outputs a first DC signal in a second voltage signal at a connected port of the non-isolated DC/DC bidirectional energy conversion unit to the digital signal processing unit and blocks an AC signal in the second voltage signal to be output to the digital signal processing unit; the digital signal processing unit determines a ripple noise signal at the output port of the non-isolated DC/DC bidirectional energy conversion unit according to the first voltage signal and the first DC signal.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE DISTRIBUTION OF LARGE WAVEFORM CAPTURES TO MULTIPLE VIEWERS

A test and measurement device has a communications port configured to connect the test and measurement device to a network, a memory, and one or more processors configured to execute code to cause the processors to receive an original waveform through the communications port, the original waveform having an identified file type, store the original waveform in the memory, the original waveform having an original file size, compress the original waveform to a compressed waveform having a compressed file size that is smaller than the original file size, notify one or more users that the compressed waveform is available, and upon receiving a request, transmitting the compressed waveform to a user device. A method of providing waveform data across a network includes receiving an original waveform through a communications port, the original waveform having an identified file type, storing the original waveform in a memory, the original waveform having an original file size, compressing the original waveform to a compressed waveform having a compressed file size that is smaller than the original file size, notifying one or more users that the compressed waveform is available, and upon receiving a request, transmit the compressed waveform to a user device.

Current measurement compensation for harmonics

A measurement module uses harmonic compensation factors to minimize the effects of harmonic distortion in measurements of a source current by a current sensor of the module. The module samples at a first sampling rate, measurements of the source current to generate a first current measurement. The module samples at a second sampling rate higher than the first sampling rate, for an interval of time, measurements of the source current to generate a second current measurement. The module determines a harmonic compensation factor based, at least, on a difference between the first current measurement and the second current measurement. The module determines a reported current computed as a function of at least the first current measurement, the difference between the first current measurement and the second current measurement, and the harmonic compensation factor. The reported current represents a magnitude of the source current adjusted by the harmonic compensation factor.

Circuits and methods for voltage measurement

An integrated circuit includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to receive input voltage, and first and second reference voltages, and outputs digital code representing ratios between the input voltage and the first and the second reference voltages. The first and second reference voltages are generated by a reference generator using different current densities. During a first stage, the ADC samples the first input voltage and the first reference voltage and transfers equivalent charge of the sampled first input voltage and first reference voltage to an integration capacitor. During a second stage, the ADC samples the second reference voltage and transfers equivalent charge of the sampled second reference voltage to the integration capacitor. The ADC provides one bit of digital code based on total charge stored on the integration capacitor after the transfers of charge of the sampled input voltage, and the sampled first and second reference voltages.

POTENTIAL MEASUREMENT DEVICE
20220137106 · 2022-05-05 ·

Provided is a potential measurement device including: a first substrate having read electrodes arranged in a two-dimensional array; and a second substrate on which the first substrate is stacked, in which each of the read electrodes includes at least one or more AD conversion circuits each having independent correspondence to the read electrode, and at least a part of the AD conversion circuits is arranged in a two-dimensional array on the second substrate.

Accurate load current sensing apparatus and method
11728731 · 2023-08-15 · ·

A Ton/2 generator retrofits a digital tracking algorithm to an analog Constant-On-Time (COT) Controller to enable fast sensing. The Ton/2 generation is cognizant of the delay between high-side switch (HSFET) on generation and the actual turn-on time of the HSFET so that there is no deviation of sampling point, and current is reported with high accuracy. The digital tracking algorithm automatically takes higher steps during load transients to enable faster tracking and scales the measured current (Ipeak/2) based on a discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) period for DCM current reporting.