Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Operator coil parameter based electromagnetic switching
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Application No.: US14832666Application Date: 2015-08-21
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Publication No.: US10074497B2Publication Date: 2018-09-11
- Inventor: Christopher H. Bock , Christopher J. Wieloch , James J. Kinsella , Stefan T. Dziekonski
- Applicant: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Applicant Address: US OH Mayfield Heights
- Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US OH Mayfield Heights
- Agency: Fletcher Yoder, P.C.
- Main IPC: H01H47/32
- IPC: H01H47/32 ; H01H47/22 ; H01H50/22 ; H01H50/54 ; H01H51/06

Abstract:
One embodiment describes an operating coil driver circuitry, which includes a control circuitry that outputs a trigger signal and a reference voltage; an operational amplifier that compares the reference voltage to a node voltage, in which the node voltage is directly related to current flowing through an operating coil of a switching device and the operational amplifier outputs a logic high signal when the node voltage is higher than the reference voltage and outputs a logic low signal when the node voltage is lower than the reference voltage; and a flip-flop that outputs a pulse-width modulated signal to instruct a switch to supply a desired current to the operating coil based at least in part on the trigger signal and the signal output by the operational amplifier.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160133410A1 OPERATOR COIL PARAMETER BASED ELECTROMAGNETIC SWITCHING Public/Granted day:2016-05-12
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