Abstract:
An electrical power measurement device measures electrical power consumed in a circuit to be measured including a power source, a load, and a pair of electric wires connecting the power source with the load. The device includes a sensor unit including a plurality of the sensor parts including a magnetic element in which element terminals are formed at both ends of a magnetic film, a measurement resistor connected to the magnetic element in series, and a detecting means that detects a voltage change of the magnetic element and outputs a predetermined component; an addition means that adds the outputs of the detecting means of all of the sensor parts; and a fixing means that fixes the magnetic elements of the sensor parts, at equal distance positions from a virtual axis serving as a position reference at which the one electric wire is arranged, in a direction facing the virtual axis.
Abstract:
An electric current measurement apparatus for measuring an electric current flowing in a conducting wire in a circuit to be measured, the electric current measurement apparatus characterized by having a magnetic element to which a drive electric current terminal and a measurement voltage terminal are provided, a holder for fixing a positional relationship of the conducting wire to a magnetic body, an electric current source capable of outputting at least one frequency of alternating electric current across the drive electric current terminal, a voltage meter for measuring a voltage across the measurement voltage terminal, and a low-pass filter provided between the measurement voltage terminal and the voltage meter.
Abstract:
According to an aspect of the present invention, a drive control system is provided that includes a transmitting apparatus and a plurality of drive control apparatuses and drives and controls a plurality of devices to be controlled, wherein the transmitting apparatus includes: a control information addition apparatus that frequency-multiplexes a plurality of control signals, and an electric wire that supplies power and the plurality of control signals to the plurality of drive control apparatuses.
Abstract:
This clamp-type ammeter has a flexible substrate of which an inner wall is configured to be able to deform into a substantially cylindrical shape. The clamp-type ammeter has a plurality of magnetic sensor elements disposed at the inner wall of the flexible substrate. The clamp-type ammeter has a tube of which one end is connected to the flexible substrate. The clamp-type ammeter has an operation unit that is connected to the other end of the tube and that can operate the deformation of the flexible substrate.
Abstract:
An output system according to one aspect of the present invention includes a magnet disposed on an axis of a pointer of a gauge, first and second magnetic sensors that are each configured to have a sensitivity axial direction, and an output unit configured to output indicated value information generated based on detection values of the magnetic sensors. Also, first and second directions are set to intersect each other on the axis of the pointer, and the first magnetic sensor is disposed such that the sensitivity axial direction thereof extends in the first direction, and the second magnetic sensor is disposed such that the sensitivity axial direction thereof extends in the second direction.
Abstract:
A magnetoresistance effect type magnetic sensor has a problem in that the increase in the surrounding temperature decreases the magnetic characteristic of a magnetic film itself and thereby decreases the sensitivity of the sensor. A sensor element includes: a magnetic film having magnetoresistance effect; a pair of electrodes for applying an electric current to the magnetic film, the pair of electrodes being opposed across the magnetic film; a longitudinal bias magnetic field addition magnet to generate a first bias magnetic field in an opposing direction of the electrodes; and a lateral bias magnetic field addition magnet to generate a second bias magnetic field in an orthogonal direction to the longitudinal bias magnetic field addition magnet, in which a temperature characteristic of the longitudinal bias magnetic field addition magnet is higher than a temperature characteristic of the lateral bias magnetic field addition magnet.
Abstract:
When miniaturizing an ammeter or wattmeter, a magnetoresistance effect element given a barber-pole electrode could be considered an efficient device. It was considered that a barber-pole electrode formed at 45° with respect to an axis of easy magnetization (the longitudinal direction of a rectangular-shaped element) would be the most efficient. Current is refracted, however, when the current passes through the boundaries of substances with different conductivity, so a barber-pole electrode formed at 45° is not the most efficient. According to the invention, it is possible to provide a highly efficient magnetoresistance element having a rectangular magnetic film whereupon an axis of easy magnification is induced in the longitudinal direction, and a barber-pole electrode which is formed upon the magnetic film at an oblique angle θ to the longitudinal direction, where the magnetoresistance element takes into account current refraction at the boundary between the electrode and the magnetic film.