Abstract: Method and device for converting an analog input signal into a digital output signal, wherein the analog input signal is supplied to be converted to the input side of an amplitude modulator with carrier suppression to obtain a carrierless amplitude-modulated signal, an adder adds a sinusoidal carrier signal offset by 90° to the amplitude-modulated signal output by the amplitude modulator to obtain a phase-modulated signal, the phase-modulated signal is supplied to a limiter that is used to suppress interference amplitude modulation in the phase-modulated signal, and the signal output by the limiter is supplied to a demodulator and sampled therein with at least one sampling clock signal, where the phase position of the at least one sampling clock signal is dynamically altered to achieve a higher resolution.

Abstract: A method for calibrating a phase-modulation converter that includes an amplitude modulator with carrier suppression, an adder, a limiter and a demodulation facility to which a signal output by the limiter is suppliable and demodulated therein, wherein a comparison of the signal output by the limiter with a reference signal occurs in the context of the demodulation, a calibration switch, which is connected upstream of the adder which is actuatable between a control setting in which the adder, is connected via the calibration switch to the input of the phase-modulation converter, and at least one calibration setting in which the is interrupted, where in a calibration setting of the calibration switch, the phase position of the reference signal is changed, preferably dynamically, and a phase position of the reference signal is found at which an output signal of the demodulation facility assumes a calibrated value.

Abstract: An input facility for a controller or measurement apparatus includes at least one input circuit for providing at least one digital or at least one analog input for a controller or measurement apparatus, wherein the at least one input circuit includes at least one phase modulation converter that has an amplitude modulator with carrier suppression to which an input signal can be supplied on the input side in order to obtain a carrierless amplitude-modulated signal, an adder for adding a carrier signal shifted by 90° to the carrierless amplitude-modulated signal and for obtaining a phase-modulated signal, a limiter to which the phase-modulated signal is supplied and with which a noise amplitude modulation in the phase-modulated signal can be suppressed, and a demodulation facility to which the signal output from the limiter is supplied and that can be sampled therein with at least one sampling clock signal.

Abstract: An arrangement for protecting an electrical facility from overvoltages having an overcurrent protection facility arranged in a first series circuit and a shunt circuit arranged between the overcurrent protection facility and the electrical facility to be protected, the shunt series resulting in a second series circuit, wherein a diode for discharging transient overvoltages is arranged in the shunt circuit, which is conductive if a voltage threshold is exceeded, as a result of which the current resulting from the overvoltage can be passed through the shunt circuit to the facility to be protected into the second shunt circuit, where a first inductor is arranged in a series connection to the diode, the diode is connected here to a first diode terminal on the first series circuit and is connected to a second diode terminal on the first inductor, and where the overcurrent protection facility is not triggered prematurely by temporary overvoltages.

Abstract: An arrangement for protecting an electrical facility from overvoltages having an overcurrent protection facility arranged in a first series circuit and a shunt circuit arranged between the overcurrent protection facility and the electrical facility to be protected, the shunt series resulting in a second series circuit, wherein a diode for discharging transient overvoltages is arranged in the shunt circuit, which is conductive if a voltage threshold is exceeded, as a result of which the current resulting from the overvoltage can be passed through the shunt circuit to the facility to be protected into the second shunt circuit, where a first inductor is arranged in a series connection to the diode, the diode is connected here to a first diode terminal on the first series circuit and is connected to a second diode terminal on the first inductor, and where the overcurrent protection facility is not triggered prematurely by temporary overvoltages.