Patents Assigned to Polymeters Response International Limited
  • Patent number: 5563506
    Abstract: Electronic electricity meter, in which the electrical energy consumed by a load is evaluated using a signal indicative of voltage supplied to the load and a signal indicative of load current. The load current signal is derived from an estimated load current value produced by a current transformer (4). The meter includes a memory (9) storing one or more constants from equations indicative of how current transformer phase and ratio errors vary as primary current varies. An adjusted value for the load current is produced by calculating the phase and/or ratio error using the stored constants and the estimated load current value and correcting the estimated load current value to eliminate the error. Alternatively, the meter includes a memory (9) storing a plurality of values of phase error and/or ratio error for a respective plurality of primary current values of the current transformer of predetermined configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1996
    Assignee: Polymeters Response International Limited
    Inventors: John S. Fielden, Andrew L. James, Barnaby J. McCabe
  • Patent number: 4931725
    Abstract: Apparatus whose measurement means consists solely of electronic components, measures the power taken by an electrical load connected to an alternating source of electricity supply in such a manner that the power sensed or energy accumulated is in agreement with the same measurements as performed by a conventional rotating disc electromechanical meter. Fundamental frequency filtering means when applied to either one or both supply voltage and load current ensure that the electronic circuitry performs the appropriate measurements in determining power consumption. A single sample per mains cycle applied to load current and supply voltage is sufficient to measure power consumption, energy consumption accumulation, and produce accumulated energy pulses appropriate to measurement of real power, true power and volt-ampere power consumed by the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1990
    Assignee: Polymeters Response International Limited
    Inventors: Peter R. Hutt, Stephen Day