Arrangement for compensating disturbance voltages induced in a transformer

Abstract

An arrangement for compensating disturbance voltages induced in a transformer is disclosed. In an embodiment an arrangement includes a transformer component comprising a transformer winding and an ancillary apparatus, wherein the ancillary apparatus comprises an auxiliary winding, wherein the auxiliary winding is connected in series with the transformer winding, and wherein the ancillary apparatus is arranged and designed such that an interference voltage induced in the transformer component is reduced by a counter-voltage induced in the ancillary apparatus.

Claims

1. An arrangement for compensating for interference voltages induced in a linear single-phase transformer for signal transmission, the arrangement comprising: a linear single-phase transformer for signal transmission comprising: a core comprising two core halves, wherein a first core half comprises a central limb and an outer limb and a second core half comprises a central limb and an outer limb; and a coil former with a central pipe and a transformer winding with a primary and a secondary winding arranged on the central pipe, wherein the central limbs of the first core half and the second core half are arranged in a hollow space of the central pipe and wherein between the outer limbs of the first core half and the second core half a residual air gap is located which supports an inducement of an interference voltage into the transformer winding; and an ancillary apparatus comprising an auxiliary winding, wherein the auxiliary winding is connected in series with the primary winding of the transformer winding, and wherein the ancillary apparatus is arranged and designed in such a way that an interference voltage induced into the transformer winding of the single-phase transformer is reduced by a counter-voltage induced in the ancillary apparatus; wherein the auxiliary winding comprises a winding direction, and wherein the winding direction of the auxiliary winding runs in the opposite direction to a winding direction of the primary winding of the transformer winding; and wherein the auxiliary winding is arranged around the single-phase transformer.

2. The arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the auxiliary winding comprises at least one coil.

3. The arrangement according to claim 1, wherein a ratio of a number of coils of the auxiliary winding to a number of coils of the transformer winding is 1:10.

4. The arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the counter-voltage has the same magnitude as the interference voltage.

5. The arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the counter-voltage is phase-shifted by 180 in comparison to the interference voltage.

6. The arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the interference voltage is completely extinguished by the counter-voltage.

7. The arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the auxiliary winding comprises a wire.

8. The arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the ancillary apparatus is electrically conductively connected to a contact element of the single-phase transformer component or to a separate contact element.

9. An arrangement for compensating for interference voltages induced in a linear single-phase transformer for signal transmission, the arrangement comprising: a linear single-phase transformer component for signal transmission comprising: a core comprising two core halves, wherein a first core half comprises a central limb and an outer limb and a second core half comprises a central limb and an outer limb; and a coil former with a central pipe and a transformer winding with a primary and a secondary winding arranged on the central pipe, wherein the central limbs of the first core half and the second core half are arranged in a hollow space of the central pipe and wherein between the outer limbs of the first core half and the second core half a residual air gap is located which supports an inducement of an interference voltage into the transformer winding; and an ancillary apparatus, comprising an auxiliary winding, wherein the auxiliary winding is connected in series with the primary winding of the transformer winding; wherein the ancillary apparatus is arranged and designed in such a way that an interference voltage induced into the transformer winding of the single-phase transformer component is reduced by a counter-voltage induced in the ancillary apparatus; wherein the auxiliary winding comprises a winding direction, and wherein the winding direction of the auxiliary winding runs in the opposite direction to a winding direction of the primary winding of the transformer winding; and wherein the single-phase transformer component and the ancillary apparatus represent separate component parts of the arrangement, wherein the ancillary apparatus comprises a core, and wherein the auxiliary winding is arranged around the core of the ancillary apparatus.

10. An arrangement for compensating for interference voltages induced in a linear single-phase transformer for signal transmission, the arrangement comprising: a linear single-phase transformer component for signal transmission, comprising: a core comprising two core halves, wherein a first core half comprises a central limb and an outer limb and a second core half comprises a central limb and an outer limb; and a coil former with a central pipe and a transformer winding with a primary and a secondary winding arranged on the central pipe, wherein the central limbs of the first core half and the second core half are arranged in a hollow space of the central pipe and wherein between the outer limbs of the first core half and the second core half a residual air gap is located which supports an inducement of an interference voltage into the transformer winding; and an ancillary apparatus, comprising an auxiliary winding, wherein the auxiliary winding is connected in series with the primary winding of the transformer winding; wherein the ancillary apparatus is arranged and designed in such a way that an interference voltage induced into the transformer winding of the single-phase transformer component is reduced by a counter-voltage induced in the ancillary apparatus; wherein the auxiliary winding comprises a winding direction, and wherein the winding direction of the auxiliary winding runs in the opposite direction to a winding direction of the primary winding of the transformer winding; and wherein the auxiliary winding is wound around at least one outer limb of the core.

11. An arrangement for compensating for interference voltages induced in a linear single-phase transformer for signal transmission, the arrangement comprising: a linear single-phase transformer component for signal transmission, comprising: a core comprising two core halves, wherein a first core half comprises a central limb and an outer limb, and a second core half comprises a central limb and an outer limb; and a coil former with a central pipe and a transformer winding with a primary and a secondary winding arranged on the central pipe, wherein the central limbs of the first core half and the second core half are arranged in a hollow space of the central pipe and wherein between the outer limbs of the first core half and the second core half a residual air gap is located which supports an inducement of an interference voltage into the transformer winding; and an ancillary apparatus, comprising an auxiliary winding, wherein the auxiliary winding is connected in series with the primary winding of the transformer winding; wherein the ancillary apparatus is arranged and designed in such a way that an interference voltage induced into the transformer winding of the single-phase transformer component is reduced by a counter-voltage induced in the ancillary apparatus; and wherein the auxiliary winding comprises a winding direction, and wherein the winding direction of the auxiliary winding runs in the opposite direction to a winding direction of the primary winding of the transformer winding; and wherein the counter-voltage has the same magnitude as the interference voltage.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

(1) The drawings described below are not to be understood as being true to scale. Instead, individual dimensions can be illustrated in an enlarged, reduced or even distorted manner for the purpose of better illustration.

(2) Elements that are identical to one another or that perform the same function are denoted by identical reference signs.

(3) FIG. 1A shows core halves of an EP transformer;

(4) FIG. 1B shows a coil former for an EP transformer;

(5) FIG. 1C shows a EP transformer having a reduction winding in accordance with the prior art;

(6) FIG. 1D schematically shows the direction of a main transformer winding around a coil former for an EP transformer;

(7) FIG. 2 shows an arrangement for compensating for interference voltages in the transformer in accordance with a first exemplary embodiment;

(8) FIG. 3 schematically shows the profile of the auxiliary winding around a transformer, which is directed counter to the main transformer winding, in accordance with an exemplary embodiment; and

(9) FIG. 4 schematically shows the profile of the auxiliary winding 32 around the transformer in accordance with a further exemplary embodiment.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF ILLUSTRATIVE EMBODIMENTS

(10) FIG. 1A shows an embodiment of a core 3 for an EP transformer. The core 3 comprises two core halves 3a, 3b, wherein a first core half 3a has a central limb 10a and an outer limb 11a. A further core half 3b has a central limb 10b and an outer limb 11b.

(11) FIG. 1B shows a coil former 12 for the EP transformer. The coil former 12 has a contact-connection device 1210 and a contact-connection device 1220. Contact elements 1230 are located on the contact-connection devices 1210, 1220 for the purpose of applying a voltage to wires (not shown in FIG. 1b) of a primary and secondary winding of the transformer (consolidated in the following text as transformer winding 1280; see FIG. 1C, for example), which wires can be wound onto a central pipe 1250 of the coil former 12. The primary winding of the transformer is also referred to as the main transformer winding. FIG. 1D shows the winding direction 1281 of the main transformer winding for an EP transformer.

(12) Contact elements 1240 serve for terminating the wires and are connected inside the contact-connection devices 1210, 1220 to the contact elements 1230. The coil former 12 has side parts/flanges 1260, 1270 on the two ends of the central pipe 1250. The side parts 1260, 1270 prevent the separate wires of the primary and secondary winding wound onto the central pipe 1250 from being able to laterally slide off the central pipe 1250.

(13) After the central pipe 1250 of the coil former 12 has been wound with the primary and secondary winding (transformer winding 1280), the two core halves 3a, 3b are inserted with their central limbs 10a, 10b into the hollow space of the central pipe 1250. The two outer limbs 11a, 11b can be adhesively bonded to one another, for example. The finished EP transformer therefore has two half-shell-shaped cores 3a, 3b, for example made of ferrite, which are embodied in a mirror-symmetrical manner to one another and have central limbs 10a, 10b that are connected to one another. The wires of the primary and secondary winding are located on the coil former 12 in wound form inside the half-shell-shaped cores 3a, 3b.

(14) Owing to the two-part half-shell core 3a, 3b, magnetic interference fields are guided to a not insignificant extent from the ferrite material directly through the central limb 10a, 10b. The air gap of the core 3 is smoothed in one of the two central limbs 10a, 10b, but the unavoidable residual air gap at the outer limb 11a, 11b results in the magnetic resistance at the outer limb 11a, 11b only being less than that of the central limb 10a, 10b by 10 to 50 times and therefore magnetic interference fields are guided partially through the central limb 10a, 10b and an interference voltage is induced in the transformer winding 1280.

(15) FIG. 1C shows an EP transformer having a reduction winding in accordance with the prior art. To reduce induction voltages due to external magnetic interference fields, an additional squirrel cage winding/reduction winding 1290 is used in the EP transformer. In this case, a self-contained electrical conductor is arranged (reduction winding 1290; top of FIG. 1C) around the entire core 3 (central limb 10a, 10b and outer limb 11a, 11b). The winding plane of the reduction winding 1290, which only has a single coil, is in this case typically arranged in parallel with the winding plane of the transformer winding 1280 (see bottom of FIG. 1C).

(16) In this case, the squirrel cage winding 1290 has to be as low-resistance as possible. This is associated with a significant amount of material, which leads to high production costs.

(17) FIG. 2 shows an arrangement according to embodiments of the invention for compensating for interference voltages in a transformer 1.

(18) The arrangement has a transformer 1 (transformer component 1). The transformer 1 substantially corresponds to the transformer described in connection with FIGS. 1A and 1B. In particular, the transformer 1 has the coil former 12 having the transformer winding (wires of a primary and secondary winding) 1280 and two half-shell-shaped ferrite cores 3a, 3b, which are embodied in a mirror-symmetrical manner to one another and have central limbs 10a, 10b (see FIG. 1A) that are connected to one another. FIG. 2 also illustrates an external interference field (magnetic field) 20 and an interference voltage 21 induced in the transformer 1 by the interference field 20.

(19) The arrangement also has an ancillary apparatus 2. The ancillary apparatus 2 has an auxiliary winding 32 (see also FIGS. 2 to 4). The auxiliary winding 32 can have, for example, a wire, for example a copper wire. Alternatively, it can also be an aluminum wire or a steel wire.

(20) In contrast to the reduction winding 1290 in accordance with the prior art, the auxiliary winding 32 has a thinner conductor. A diameter of the auxiliary winding 32 preferably deviates only slightly from a diameter of the transformer winding 1280. The auxiliary winding 32 and the transformer winding 1280 preferably have an identical or an at least similar wire thickness. For example, the auxiliary winding 32 has a wire diameter of 40 m to 150 m. The transformer winding 1280 and the auxiliary winding 32 are wound counter to one another. In contrast to the reduction winding 1290 from the prior art, the auxiliary winding 32 is also not intrinsically shorted. Instead, the auxiliary winding 32 is connected by means of separate contact points. In particular, the auxiliary winding 32 is conductively connected to contact points, as is explained in more detail in the following text.

(21) In the exemplary embodiments shown in FIGS. 2, 3 and 4, the auxiliary winding 32 has just one coil. However, the auxiliary winding 32 can also have a plurality of coils. The auxiliary winding 32 preferably has one to 30 coils, for example 5, 10, 20 or 25 coils. A number of the coils of the auxiliary winding 32 is matched to a number of the coils of the transformer winding 1280. The ratio of the number of coils of the auxiliary winding 32 and the transformer winding 1280 is preferably 1:10.

(22) The auxiliary winding 32 is connected in series with the transformer winding 1280 (see FIG. 2, for example). The auxiliary winding 32 and the transformer 1 are connected, in particular, in such a way that an interference voltage 21 (see FIG. 2) coupled into the transformer 1 is suppressed by virtue of a voltage 31 induced in the auxiliary winding 32 being connected in series with the transformer winding 1280. The voltage 31 induced in the auxiliary winding 32 is preferably mirror-inverted with respect to the interference voltage 21. The mirror-inverted voltage 31 is preferably of equal magnitude to the interference voltage 21. The mirror-inverted voltage 31 is preferably phase-offset by 180 in comparison to the interference voltage 21.

(23) Consequently, a voltage 31, which is mirror-inverted with respect to the interference voltage 21, is induced in the auxiliary winding 32 due to the interference field 20. The mirror-inverted voltage 31 reduces the interference voltage 21 induced in the transformer winding 1280. The interference voltage 21 is preferably completely extinguished by the mirror-inverted voltage 31. Consequently, a voltage of zero is applied to the terminals 22 of the arrangement composed of the transformer 1 and the ancillary apparatus 2 connected in series, even in the presence of an external magnetic interference field 20.

(24) In the exemplary embodiment shown in FIG. 2, the transformer 1 and the ancillary apparatus 2 represent discrete component parts or component parts arranged separately from one another. To this end, the ancillary apparatus 2 has a core 33, for example a ferrite core. The auxiliary winding 32 is arranged around the core 33. The auxiliary winding 32 is connected here by means of a printed circuit board (not illustrated in FIG. 2). The winding direction of the auxiliary winding 32 around the core 33 is in the opposite direction to a winding direction of the transformer winding 1280. In particular, the winding direction of the auxiliary winding 32 around the core 33 is in the opposite direction to a winding direction 1281 of the main transformer winding (see also FIG. 3 in this respect).

(25) FIG. 3 schematically shows the profile of the auxiliary winding 32 around the coil former 12 in accordance with a further exemplary embodiment. Like in the arrangement shown in FIG. 2, the auxiliary winding 32 runs in the opposite direction to the transformer winding 1280 (see winding direction 1281 of the main transformer winding in FIG. 3). However, unlike in FIG. 2, the auxiliary winding 32 is not arranged around a separate core. In this exemplary embodiment, the auxiliary winding is guided around the transformer winding 1280. The transformer 1 and the ancillary apparatus 2 consequently represent a common component part of the arrangement. In particular, the transformer 1 and the ancillary apparatus 2 are in this case not spatially separate from one another. The auxiliary winding 32 also runs past the contact elements 1240 of the transformer 1 and is connected thereto.

(26) The auxiliary winding 32 runs not only around the transformer winding 1280, but also around the entire transformer 1. The auxiliary winding 32 preferably runs at the position of the reduction winding 1290 described in connection with FIG. 1C. The auxiliary winding 32 is arranged around the entire core 3 (central limb 10a, 10b and outer limb 11a, 11b). The auxiliary winding 32 is fed through underneath the core 3 and electrically conductively connected to the contact elements 1240.

(27) FIG. 4 schematically shows the profile of the auxiliary winding 32 around the transformer 1 in accordance with a further embodiment. The auxiliary winding 32 is in this case wound only around one or both outer limbs 11a, 11b of the transformer 1. In particular, in this exemplary embodiment, the auxiliary winding 32 is not guided around the transformer winding 1280. Instead, the auxiliary winding 32 is merely wound around an outer region of the transformer 1.

(28) Although only a restricted number of possible developments of the invention could be described in the exemplary embodiments, the invention is not restricted thereto. It is possible, in principle, to use a different number of coils or to arrange the elements in an offset position from one another.

(29) The description of the subjects specified here is not limited to the individual specific embodiments. Rather, the features of the individual embodimentsinsofar as it makes technical sensecan be combined with one another arbitrarily.