Abstract: The present invention provides an information providing apparatus including a determining unit configured to determine an added value to be provided to a user of a portable electric power supply device including a storage battery that stores electric power to be supplied to electrical equipment detachably connected, wherein in a case where a kind of the electrical equipment is a specified kind of electrical equipment, the determining unit determines the added value to be provided to the user in such a manner that the added value to be provided to the user is higher than an added value in a case where the kind of the electrical equipment is not the specified kind of electrical equipment.

Abstract: A Multi-Phase Simulation Environment (“MPSE”) is provided. In one embodiment, a simulation environment controller is configured to select a waveform from a waveform playlist and initiate a trigger signal to one or more waveform generators of a plurality of waveform generators to generate the waveform. The plurality of waveform generators are configured to generate the waveform under a phase lock.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to an on-chip current sensor. The on-chip current sensor includes: a vertical Hall sensor; and a current carrying conductor in a first wiring layer above the vertical Hall sensor.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes techniques for detecting foreign objects. In some aspects, an apparatus for detecting objects is provided. The apparatus includes a plurality of sense circuits, each of the plurality of sense circuits including a primary sense coil having a first terminal and a second terminal, a secondary sense coil having a first terminal and a second terminal, and a capacitor having a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal of the capacitor is electrically connected to the second terminals of each of the primary sense coil and the secondary sense coil. The apparatus further includes a driver circuit electrically connected to the first terminal of the primary sense coil of each of the plurality of sense circuits. The apparatus further includes a measurement circuit electrically connected to the first terminal of the secondary sense coil of each of the plurality of sense circuits.

Abstract: The device for monitoring internal pipe deposit accumulation is a capacitance-based sensor for monitoring changes in thickness of deposits accumulating on an internal surface of a pipe. The device includes a pipe segment having opposed first and second open ends with at least one valve releasably sealing at least one of the first and second open ends. A first electrode, in the form of an electrically conductive cylindrical shell, is mounted on and surrounds a portion of an external surface of the pipe segment. A second electrode, in the form of an electrically conductive rod, is mounted coaxially within an interior of the pipe segment. An electrical power source is electrically connected across the first and second electrodes to form a cylindrical capacitor and changes in capacitance of the cylindrical capacitor are monitored by a controller.

Abstract: A method for the onsite calibration of a Rogowski sensor to be calibrated, includes the steps of: cause the sensor to be calibrated to be positioned on a reference phase, or cause a reference sensor to be positioned on the phase to be calibrated; acquiring a calibration current measurement produced by the sensor to be calibrated, a reference current measurement produced by the reference sensor, and a reference voltage measurement on the phase on which are positioned the reference sensor to be calibrated following the positioning step; and using the calibration current measurement, the reference current measurement and the reference voltage measurement to produce calibration parameters of the sensor to be calibrated.

Abstract: The present invention provides an information providing apparatus including a determining unit configured to determine an added value to be provided to a user of a portable electric power supply device including a storage battery that stores electric power to be supplied to electrical equipment detachably connected, wherein in a case where a kind of the electrical equipment is a specified kind of electrical equipment, the determining unit determines the added value to be provided to the user in such a manner that the added value to be provided to the user is higher than an added value in a case where the kind of the electrical equipment is not the specified kind of electrical equipment.

Abstract: A current sensor system for measuring an AC electrical current, includes: a busbar having a beam shaped portion having a length and a width; a sensor device comprising two sensor elements spaced apart from each other in the width direction of the beam shaped portion. The sensor device is configured for measuring a magnetic field difference or a magnetic field gradient, and for determining the AC current based on said difference or gradient.

Abstract: A speed sensor assembly (114) includes a printed circuit board (PCB) (120) having a first main side and a second main side, a magnet (116) directly coupled to the first main side of the PCB (120), a sensor (118) electrically connected to the PCB (120), and a pole piece (125) directly coupled to the magnet (116) and to the sensor (118), wherein the magnet (116) includes a slot partially enclosed by the pole piece (125). The speed sensor assembly (114) including a slotted magnet (116) to reduce magnetic field amplitude for single sensing element hall effect sensor applications. The speed sensor assemblies (114) operate with both minimum and maximum air gaps.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an antenna assembly for a test system. The antenna assembly includes a feedthrough part, two waveguide inputs, a single waveguide output as well as a multiplexing part that is interconnected between the two waveguide inputs and the single waveguide output. The multiplexing part is integrated within the feedthrough part at least partially. Moreover, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a test system and a method of establishing a test system for testing a device under test.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes techniques for detecting foreign objects. In some aspects, an apparatus for detecting objects is provided. The apparatus includes a plurality of sense circuits, each of the plurality of sense circuits including a primary sense coil having a first terminal and a second terminal, a secondary sense coil having a first terminal and a second terminal, and a capacitor having a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal of the capacitor is electrically connected to the second terminals of each of the primary sense coil and the secondary sense coil. The apparatus further includes a driver circuit electrically connected to the first terminal of the primary sense coil of each of the plurality of sense circuits. The apparatus further includes a measurement circuit electrically connected to the first terminal of the secondary sense coil of each of the plurality of sense circuits.

Abstract: An apparatus for positioning and retaining a current transformer, such as a Rogowski coil, about a conductor includes at least two members, a coupling mechanism, and a non-conductive securing structure. Each member of the apparatus includes a respective retention structure configured to receive a respective section of the Rogowski coil. The coupling mechanism is configured to movably deploy at least one of the apparatus members relative to the other and around the conductor, which may be a distribution transformer power node. The securing structure is configured to engage the conductor and retain the apparatus members in fixed positions relative to the conductor and to each other.

Abstract: A circuit for measuring an unknown resistance of a resistive element comprises a sensor circuit to generate a differential voltage dependent on the resistance of the resistive element and a reference circuit to generate a differential reference voltage and a sigma-delta converter comprising a first stage, wherein a first capacitor is selectively coupled to one of the output terminals of the sensor circuit and a second capacitor is coupled to one of the output terminals of the reference circuit. The circuit generates logarithmically compressed values.

Abstract: The present application provides a detecting method of an operating state of a power supply and a detecting apparatus, where the power supply includes a primary circuit, a transformer and a secondary circuit. The secondary circuit includes a secondary current detecting unit, a temperature detecting unit and a secondary controlling unit. Firstly the secondary current detecting unit detects a current value of the secondary circuit, then the secondary controlling unit compares the current value of the secondary circuit with a preset current threshold. When the current value of the secondary circuit is less than or equal to the preset current threshold, the temperature detecting unit detects a temperature value of the power supply and the secondary controlling unit determines the operating state of the power supply according to the acquired temperature value of the power supply.

Abstract: A full-path circuit delay measurement device for a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and a measurement method are provided. The measurement device includes two shadow registers and a phase-shifted clock, where the two shadow registers take an output of a measured combinational logic circuit as a clock and sample the phase-shifted clock SCLK as data; the two shadow registers are respectively triggered on rising and falling edges of the output of the measured combinational logic circuit to sample the phase-shifted clock; outputs of the two shadow registers are delivered by an OR gate as an input into a synchronization register; a clock of the synchronization register serves as a clock MCLK of the measured combinational logic circuit; an output of the synchronization register serves as that of the circuit delay measurement device; the phase-shifted clock SCLK and the clock MCLK of the measured combinational logic circuit have the same frequency.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sensor includes a base, and a first structure body. The base includes semiconductor dement including the first dement electrode. The first structure body includes a first conductive member and a coil. The first conductive member is electrically connected with the first element electrode. The coil is provided around the first conductive member in a first plane crossing a first direction from the base to the first structure body.

Abstract: A current detection circuit includes an operational amplifier, a current sense amplifier including a first resistor and a second resistor, and a level shifter. The first resistor is provided between one end of a shunt resistor and a first input node of the operational amplifier. The second resistor is provided between the other end of the shunt resistor and a second input node of the operational amplifier. The level shifter controls voltages of the first input node and the second input node by controlling, according to a voltage at the one end of the shunt resistor, currents supplied to the first input node and the second input node.

Abstract: A method for determining an electric current includes sending the electric current to be measured through a shunt arrangement that includes at least three identical resistors. The at least three identical resistors are thermally coupled to a common base plate and are electrically interconnected such that the electric current is at least partially divided such that a first local current through a first resistor is not equal to a second local current through a second resistor. The method also includes measuring, at the shunt arrangement, a first voltage and a second voltage via which the voltage dropping across a first resistor and across a second resistor are directly or indirectly determinable, and determining the electric current via the first voltage and the second voltage. A heating in the shunt arrangement generated by the electric current is at least partially taken into account in the determining the electric current.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for calibration of a current transformer. In some examples, one or more electrical elements may be affected in order to set a calibration of the current transformer. A calibration circuit of the current transformer may be permanently or non-permanently affected according to a calibration code in order to set the calibration of the current transformer. For example, one or more fuses may be burned to lock in a certain configuration of the current transformer.

Abstract: An enclosed low temperature cofired ceramic current sensor with planar signal pads incorporating shield plates protecting an inner positioned circumference offset herringbone wound coil connected to a pair of bottom signal pads, and a central axis stacked power conductor connected to a pair of bottom power pads outside of the top and bottom shield plates.