Abstract:
An alternating current load detection circuit comprises a first resistor connected in parallel to a load circuit, a diode full bridge circuit connected in series to the load circuit, a filter capacitor connected in parallel to the diode full bridge circuit, a second resistor, and a photoelectric coupler connected in series to the diode full bridge circuit. The photoelectric coupler and the diode full bridge circuit are connected in parallel to the second resistor. The diode full bridge circuit includes a first diode, a second diode having a positive electrode electrically connected to a negative electrode of the first diode, a third diode having a negative electrode electrically connected to a positive electrode of the first diode, and a fourth diode having a positive electrode electrically connected to a negative electrode of the second diode and a negative electrode electrically connected to a positive electrode of the third diode.
Abstract:
A zero-crossing detection circuit for a trailing edge phase control dimmer circuit for controlling alternating current (AC) power to a load, wherein the circuit includes: a switching circuit for controlling delivery of AC power to the load by conducting power to the load in an ON state and not conducting power to the load in an OFF state; a switching control circuit for controlling turn-OFF and turn-ON of the switching circuit at each cycle of the AC; and a rectifier for rectifying the AC power in the non-conduction period to generate rectified dimmer voltage to be provided to the dimmer circuit, wherein the zero-crossing detection circuit includes a current sink circuit; wherein the current sink circuit has a low impedance at low instantaneous AC voltages; a comparator circuit configured to detect zero crossings of a first threshold value of the rectified dimmer voltage.
Abstract:
Disclosed are a current zero-cross detection device, zero-cross current signal acquisition circuit and totem pole bridgeless circuit system. The current zero-cross detection device includes a current transformer, first sampling switch, second sampling switch, sampling resister, comparator. The current transformer includes a primary winding and a secondary winding; the primary winding is connected to a circuit to be detected; two ends of the secondary winding are connected respectively to drain electrodes of the first and second sampling switches; source electrodes of first and second sampling switches are connected to ground; two ends of the sampling resistor are connected respectively to the drain electrode and source electrode of the second sampling switch; the negative input end of the comparator is connected to the drain electrode of the second sampling switch, its positive input end is connected to a reference voltage; the first and second sampling switches are in ON or OFF state.
Abstract:
Operation conditions of a plurality of electric devices are estimated in detail at a remote location. A signal processing system according to the present invention includes: a measurement apparatus that measures current and voltage which are supplied to a plurality of electric devices from a power supply; and a processing apparatus that is connected to the measurement apparatus through a communication channel and estimates operation conditions of the respective electric devices from a measurement result of the measurement apparatus. The measurement apparatus includes a detection unit that detects analog waveform data of the current and the voltage which are supplied to the electric devices, a conversion unit that samples the analog waveform data detected by the detection unit on the basis of a predetermined sampling frequency and converts the sampled analog waveform data into digital waveform data, and a transmission unit that transmits the digital waveform data to the processing apparatus. The processing apparatus includes a reception unit that receives the digital waveform data transmitted from the transmission unit, a storage unit that stores the digital waveform data received by the reception unit, a separation unit that separates the digital waveform data stored in the storage unit into pieces of digital waveform data for the respective electric devices, and an operation estimation unit that analyzes the pieces of digital waveform data separated by the separation unit and estimates the operation conditions of the respective electric devices.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method is provided for measuring the phase noise of an analogue ac signal. A 1-bit digitizer generates an oversampled 1 bit serial bit stream. This is analysed to identify crossing points in the original signal based on transitions in the 1 bit serial bit stream over a number of periods of the analogue ac signal. A first period or frequency is based on successive crossing points associated with a rising analogue ac signal and a second period or frequency is derived from successive crossing points associated with a falling analogue ac signal. A phase noise level can then be calculated. This provides a low cost and fast phase noise test.
Abstract:
Device for regulating the electric feeding of a charge (1) through the alternating current, with at least some serially opposed switching elements (3) or a switching network, and a unit for controlling (2) said switching elements (3). The device comprises a comparator (5) of the saturation voltage "V CEsat " of the switching elements (3), associated to an attenuation network (8) in an input terminal, insofar as in the other input terminal there is a voltage generator having the reference "V ref " disposed between the collector and emitter "V ce " corresponding to an "I ce " current equal to zero, in order to determine the moment of null circulation and current due to said switching elements (3) through the fall of "V CEsat " below "V ref ", determining a current zero-crossing signal to the control unit (2).
Abstract:
In a power supply device including a full-wave rectifying and smoothing circuit powered from a commercial AC power supply via two power supply lines, a switching regulator for separating and stepping down the output from the full-wave rectifying and smoothing circuit to output a desired DC voltage, and two capacitors (C12,C13) after the full-wave rectifying and smoothing circuit for the terminal noise suppression purpose, a zero-cross detection circuit includes a transistor (Q41) of which the emitter is connected to the low-voltage output terminal of the full-wave rectifying and smoothing circuit for outputting a zero-cross detection signal from the collector; a first resistor (R43) is connected between the base and emitter of the transistor; a second resistor (R41) is connected between one of the power supply lines and the base of the transistor; and a third resistor (R42) is connected between the other power supply line and the emitter of the transistor.