702 results about "Signal injection" patented technology

A directional induction logging tool is provided for measurement while drilling. This tool is preferably placed in a side pocket of a drill collar, and it comprises transmitter and receiver coils and an electromagnetic reflector. The reflector, which may be a layer of highly conductive material placed between the coils and the body of the drill collar, serves to focus the electromagnetic fields generated and sensed by the tool in the direction away from the reflector, thus providing a directional response to formation conductivity with a relatively high depth of investigation. In preferred embodiments of the invention, magnetically permeable cores are placed within the coils to concentrate the magnetic fields that pass through them. Circuitry is described for balancing the mutual inductive coupling of the coils by injecting a direct current signal through one or more of the coils, which alters the magnetic permeability of the core material. The magnitude of the direct current required to achieve a balanced condition may be derived from the quadrature phase component of the return signal. Circuitry is also provided for generating a transmitted signal and for processing the return signals, including digital-to-analog conversion circuitry for providing digital data for transmission to the surface. This tool may be employed to provide real-time directional conductivity information that may be used to detect and follow bed boundaries in geosteering operations.

A method for acquiring cardiac information from a patient having a pacer for pacing a heart rhythm, an abnormal EKG, or an abnormal heartbeat is disclosed. The method includes: placing a signal injection device proximate the pacer of the patient and injecting a signal across a skin barrier of the patient toward the pacer; in response to the signal received at the pacer, pacing the patient's heart in a fixed asynchronous pacing mode; and, acquiring cardiac information relating to the patient's fixed asynchronously paced heart.

An apparatus for monitoring speaker cone displacement in an audio speaker includes: (a) an electromagnetic coil structure; (b) a ferrous core structure; the ferrous core structure and the electromagnetic coil structure being mounted with the speaker to effect variable electromagnetic coupling between the ferrous core structure and the electromagnetic coil structure as the speaker cone moves; (c) a signal injecting circuit coupled with the electromagnetic coil structure for injecting a predetermined input signal into the electromagnetic coil structure; and (d) a signal monitoring circuit coupled with the electromagnetic coil structure; the signal monitoring circuit receiving an output signal from the electromagnetic coil structure and generating an indicating signal based upon the output signal; at least one signal characteristic of the indicating signal being related with the cone displacement.

A solar panel system includes a plurality of the panels connected together in one or more panel strings. An embodiment includes a signal generator module connected to the photovoltaic panel strings injecting a multiple radio frequency signal onto each of the strings and a detector module analyzing a frequency response echo from the panel strings. The signal generator may include a string coupling module communicating with a controller. The detector module analyzes the echo to obtain an analog fingerprint for each panel string and determine whether the fingerprint for each panel string is within an acceptable range. The detector module initiates an alarm when one of the fingerprints is outside the acceptable range. During night time, when no current is being produced by the photovoltaic cells, a DC or AC source may be connected to the panel strings to inject a signal onto the strings for the same purpose.

An indoor location system uses an electrical power line, power line signal injection devices, and portable position receivers (tags) to generate location data relating to positions of the tags in a structure such as a residence or business. The indoor location system fingerprinting of multiple signals transmitted along the power line to achieve sub-room-level localization of the positioning receivers. In one embodiment, the fingerprinting techniques utilizes wideband power line positioning (WPLP) that injects up to 44 different frequencies into the power line infrastructure of a structure. The WPLP technique improves upon overall positioning accuracy, improved temporal stability and may be implemented in commercial indoor spaces.

A wideband, high quality audio signal is decoded with few calculations at a low bitrate. Unwanted spectrum components accompanying sinusoidal signal injection by a synthesis subband filter built with real-value operations are suppressed by inserting a suppression signal to subbands adjacent to the subband to which the sine wave is injected. This makes it possible to inject a desired sinusoid with few calculations.

A wideband, high quality audio signal is decoded with few calculations at a low bitrate. Unwanted spectrum components accompanying sinusoidal signal injection by a synthesis subband filter built with real-value operations are suppressed by inserting a suppression signal to subbands adjacent to the subband to which the sine wave is injected. This makes it possible to inject a desired sinusoid with few calculations.

A coupling network has a first power line interface port and a power line modem interface configured to be coupled to a power line modem transceiver. An inductor-capacitor circuit coupled to the power line modem interface has a low-impedance resonant frequency at a signal frequency of the power line modem transceiver. An inductor having a corner frequency between the signal frequency and the power line frequency has a first end and a second end. The first end of the inductor is connected to the inductor-capacitor circuit and a second end of the inductor is coupled to an alternating current ground coupled to the transceiver ground. The inductor couples the first power line interface port to a power supply interface port.

A two-optical signal generator is provided for generating two optical signals, where a difference between optical frequencies or optical wavelength of the two optical signals can be adjusted. A first optical modulator modulates a single-mode optical signal generated by a first light source according to an inputted signal, and outputs a modulated optical signal including predetermined specific two optical signals having a predetermined optical frequency difference, while a second light source generates a multi-mode optical signal including predetermined two further optical signals having substantially the same wavelengths as those of the predetermined specific two optical signals of the modulated optical signal, respectively. Then an optical injection device optically injects the modulated optical signal into the second light source, and the predetermined specific two optical signals of the modulated optical signal are injection-locked into the predetermined two further optical signals of the multi-mode optical signal, so that the second light source generates an injection-locked predetermined specific two optical signals.

The invention provides a method for detecting the initial position of a magnetic pole of a rotor of a built-in permanent magnetic synchronous motor, belongs to the field of motor control, and solves the problems of over-complicated processing, easy occurrence of polarity misjudging, poor practicality and the like existing in the conventional method based on high-frequency signal injection for detecting the initial position of the rotor. The method comprises the following steps: constantly maintaining the stationary state of the rotor; injecting a rotating high-frequency voltage signal into a stator winding; detecting three-phase stator current and converting the three-phase stator current into two-phase static coordinates; acquiring an error signal capable of reflecting position information of the magnetic pole of the rotor through signal processing; adjusting the error signal by using a PI tracker so as to acquire an initial judging value of the position of the magnetic pole of the rotor; and injecting two impulse voltage vectors in opposite directions into the stator winding, comparing values of direct axis current components by detecting the three phase current and converting the rotating coordinates so as to determine the polarity of the magnetic pole, and finally acquiring the initial position angle of the magnetic pole of the rotor of the built-in permanent magnetic synchronous motor.

A leak detector sequentially emits pulse signals toward a human body at a position at which a needle is inserted, detects pulse signals reflected inside of the human body, and measures a time interval between the emission and the detection for each of the pulse signals. Then, the leak detector calculates the difference between the measured interval and a predetermined time interval, and generates a leak warning for notification when the difference exceeds an acceptable range. Since a swelling on the surface of the human body causes a path of the pulse signal to extend, the leak detector can detect, based on the extended signal path, that the needle has come off a blood vessel.

An injection locking oscillator (ILO) comprising a tank circuit having a digitally controlled capacitor bank, a cross-coupled differential transistor pair coupled to the tank circuit, at least one signal injection node, and at least one output node configured to provide an injection locked output signal; a digitally controlled injection-ratio circuit having an injection output coupled to the at least one signal injection node, configured to accept an input signal and to generate an adjustable injection signal applied to the at least one injection node; and, an ILO controller connected to the capacitor bank and the injection-ratio circuit configured to apply a control signal to the capacitor bank to adjust a resonant frequency of the tank circuit and to apply a control signal to the injection-ratio circuit to adjust a signal injection ratio.

A means and method are provided for enhancing or replacing the natural excitation of the human vocal tract by artificial excitation means, wherein the artificially created acoustics present additional spectral, temporal, or phase data useful for (1) enhancing the machine recognition robustness of audible speech or (2) enabling more robust machine-recognition of relatively inaudible mouthed or whispered speech. The artificial excitation (a) may be arranged to be audible or inaudible, (b) may be designed to be non-interfering with another user's similar means, (c) may be used in one or both of a vocal content-enhancement mode or a complimentary vocal tract-probing mode, and / or (d) may be used for the recognition of audible or inaudible continuous speech or isolated spoken commands.

An intrusion detection system provides the function of an “active” ranging sensor cable system utilized for identification of the location of the intruder, with that of a “passive” cable detection system, in an integrated cable configuration. This dual function is provided with a single conventional sensing cable optimized for both “active” and “passive” sensing, or in combination with other parallel sensing cables for a “passive” cable component. The “active” cable component includes a coaxial sensor cable having a loosely disposed conductor. A signal is injected into the sensor cable such that a reflection is altered when an intrusion disturbs the cable. Based on the timing of the reflection, a processor, or a reflectometer, identifies the location of the disturbance. The “passive” cable component can be sensitized to detect intrusion via some other sensing phenomenology, such as the triboelectric effect, for triboelectric effect sensing.

The invention discloses an insulation detection method based on low frequency impulse signal injection. Low frequency impulse signal injection is adopted to detect an insulating performance of a whole vehicle, and a capacitor is adopted to separate a high-voltage current from a detection circuit and separate a direct-current system of the whole vehicle from a low frequency impulse signal, so that an alternating current interference signal brought for an electrical system through high frequency signal injection is reduced, and the defects of reducing the insulating performance of the whole vehicle, incapability in locating an insulation fault point, complex structure, inaccuracy in detection when a positive pole and a negative pole are leaked simultaneously, which are caused by other detection methods, are avoided.

A periodic test signal is injected into a motion sensor and the sensor output is compared to a threshold to determine whether the sensor is functioning properly.

The present invention relates to the technical field of electrical engineering and discloses a PRBS disturbance injection-based power grid impedance online identification device. The device is mainly composed of a grid-connected inverter, a current loop controller, a sampling device and an impedance identification unit. The device is characterized in that the grid-connected inverter is connected with the current loop controller. When the grid-connected state is stable, the grid-connected inverter injects the PRBS disturbance into the power grid. During the injection process of a PRBS signal, a built-in output voltage THD is fed back to the controller, so that the THD value of the output voltage of the inverter is ensured to be smaller than 5%. The sampling device is connected with the PCC part of the power grid and is used for sampling and recording the voltage and the current at the PCC part of the power grid. The impedance identification unit is used for subjecting the sampled data of the sampling device to DFT analysis, and taking the average value of the amplitude and the average value of the phase of each harmonic component of the voltage and the current during the current sampling period. The method of the invention is high in precision, high in speed, strong in real-time property, wide in frequency range, lower in measuring cost and difficulty, and better in stability.

The invention relates to a motor control system and method without a position sensor. According to the invention, internal signals of a motor can be detected without needing the position sensor. In the motor control system without the position sensor, a high-frequency voltage signal injection unit injects a high-frequency voltage signal to a d axis in a synchronically rotating d-q coordinate system; the voltage signal is obtained by a Park inverse transformation unit; a voltage vector on a static coordinate system generates a power device pulse width signal through a space vector pulse width modulation algorithm; a three-phase current signal and a high-frequency injection signal are generated according to the power device pulse width signal; the three-phase current signal is filtered by using a band-pass filter to reserve the high-frequency injection signal; the high-frequency injection signal is subjected to Clarke transformation and Park transformation in turn to obtain current; the current is subjected to signal processing through a rotor position observer unit to obtain position and speed of a rotor. According to the invention, internal structure of a motor system is simplified, cost for the motor control system is greatly reduced, and stability of the motor is improved.

The invention relates to an injection locking frequency divider used in the integrated circuit of a radio receiver, belonging to the technical field of integrated circuits of radio frequency radio receivers. The injection locking frequency divider is formed by an inductance-capacitance oscillator, a tuning circuit, a signal injection circuit and a current source biasing circuit, wherein the tuning circuit comprises a numerical control capacitor array tuner and a varactor tuner. Under the condition of no external input excitation, the inductance-capacitance oscillator self-oscillates by certain frequency. The tuning circuit tunes the self-oscillating frequency through varying the load of the resonant cavity of the oscillator. The signal injection circuit injects input signals into the resonant cavity of the oscillator to realize the traction and the locking of the self-oscillating frequency of the oscillator and to further the frequency halving of the input signals. Compared with the prior art, the invention has the advantages that the circuit can realize high working frequency under low power consumption and the working frequency range is wide.

The invention relates to a system and method for determining direct current system fault branch circuits needing to be in in-series connection with alternating currents. The system comprises an on-line monitoring device, wherein the input of the on-line monitoring device is connected with the positive electrode and the negative electrode of a direct current bus and the ground; a plurality of fault locating devices are arranged in various direct current branch circuits respectively, and the on-line monitoring device is connected with each fault locating device through a communication bus. The method comprises the steps that 1) positive electrode voltage to ground U+, negative electrode voltage to ground U- and in-series connected alternating voltage Uac of the direct current bus are detected, and when the Uac is greater than a set value Uaca, the situation that a direct current system has alternating current in-series connection faults is determined; 2) when the U- is less than or equal to delta U, the situation that the alternating currents are connected to the direct current system in series through the positive electrode is determined; when the U+ is less than or equal to the delta U, the situation that the alternating currents are connected to the direct current system in series through the positive electrode is determined; 3) leak currents of all the branch circuits of the direct current system are detected and ordered, the branch circuit having the maximal leak current value is the branch circuit needing to be in in-series connection with the alternating currents. According to the system and method, an alternating current sensor does not need to be additionally arranged, and system cost is saved. Meanwhile, according to the scheme, signal injection does not exist, and therefore increase of ripples of the direct current system will not be caused, the problems that a relay mistakenly moves and a breaker mistakenly trips are solved, and reliability is higher.

A smart sensor network for power grid health monitoring includes a plurality of spaced sensors that are magnetically coupled to the power transmission line to be monitored. The sensors include a signal injection unit and a signal sensing unit. As such, one of the sensors acts to inject, via its signal injection unit, a high frequency signal through the magnetic coupling into the power transmission line, while sensors on either side of the signal injecting sensor act to block the injected signal, which is then detected by the signal sensing unit of the injecting sensor, and is used to measure the impedance of the power transmission line segment being analyzed. Based on the difference between a pre-measured impedance of the power transmission line being monitored and the actual impedance value of the power transmission line being measured by the sensor, the health of the power line can be obtained.

A method of estimating inductance of a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) includes injecting a signal having a frequency differing from an operating frequency of the PMSM into the PMSM during sensorless operation, sensing magnitudes of current responses to the injected signal, and estimating an inductance value at which the magnitude of the sensed current response is minimal to be an actual inductance value of the PMSM, thereby estimating inductance used in the PMSM regardless of position estimation error of the PMSM and thus more accurately and reliably estimating inductance of the PMSM.

A novel image sensor includes a pixel array, a row control circuit, a test signal injection circuit, a sampling circuit, an image processing circuit, a comparison circuit, and a control circuit. In a particular embodiment, the test signal injection circuit injects test signals into the pixel array, the sampling circuit acquires pixel data from the pixel array, and the comparison circuit compares the pixel data with the test signals. If the pixel data does not correspond to the test signals, the comparison circuit outputs an error signal. Additional comparison circuits are provided to detect defects in the control circuitry of an image sensor.

Arrangement to determine at least one electrical feature of an electrical device includes a signal injection unit configured to inject first and second test signals into electric, a signal conversion unit configured to measure electrical qualities in the electrical circuits resulting from the test signals, and a processing device including at least two input channels configured to receive the measured electrical quantities and to determine the electrical feature based on the measured electrical quantities, a mixing unit configured to add the measurements of the first electrical quantity from the test signals and based thereon generate a first mixed signal, to add the measurements of the second electrical quantity from the test signals and based thereon generate a second mixed signal, and to supply the first and second mixed signals to first and second input channels.

A PFC circuit modulating a power line using pulse width modulation (PWM) to drive a power MOSFET and series inductor across the power line. Since many modern electronic systems include a power factor correction circuit (PFC) that already includes a series inductor and power MOSFET, a PLC is incorporated into a controller to inject a PLC transmit signal into a control loop for the PFC circuit. This can be done using either an analog PFC controller, such as the UCC28517, the UCC2819A, or a digital PFC controller such as based on a TMS32OC24xx DSP.

A device and method for correlation-based background calibration of pipelined converters with a reduced power penalty. A pipelined analog-to-digital converter (ADC) utilizes a random or pseudorandom signal to reduce the quantization error of subconverting stages. Stages within the ADC comprise an injection circuit having a plurality of capacitive branches in parallel. Less than all of the branches can function during a given clock cycle of the ADC. This allows a subconverting stage within the ADC to be accurately trimmed before operation using a large amplitude signal. At the same time, the capability to inject smaller amplitude random or pseudorandom signals into the subconverting stage during operation is maintained, saving valuable dynamic range and power. The various capacitive branches are cycled through either randomly or in sequence such that the quantizer manifests the same average gain error over time for which the quantizer was initially trimmed.

The invention belongs to the technical field of storage battery management and provides a storage battery online monitoring system and a monitoring method thereof, wherein the system comprises at least one storage battery monitoring terminal and a storage battery monitoring center, the storage battery monitoring terminals are arranged at corresponding monitoring points, connected with storage battery poles and used for collecting ripple voltage of storage batteries; and the storage battery monitoring center comprises a ripple signal injection module which is used for injecting ripple current to the storage batteries synchronously, and meanwhile, the storage battery monitoring center collects the ripple current on a return circuit of a storage battery group and calculates and displays the internal resistance of corresponding storage batteries according to the ripple voltage and the ripple current. According to the storage battery online monitoring system and the monitoring method thereof, as the storage battery monitoring terminals used for the ripple voltage collection of the storage batteries are distributed at various monitoring points, and the collection of the ripple current is completed independently by the storage battery monitoring center, the situation that the collection of ripple voltage and ripple current is carried out by the same monitoring module is avoided, the waste of resources is reduced, and the cost is reduced on the premise of ensuring the accuracy.

A permanent-magnet synchronous motor sensorless control method adopting square-wave injection belongs to the field of motor control. The invention aims to solve the problem that the permanent-magnet synchronous motor is applicable to low-speed sensorless control technologies and the traditional sine signal injection method demands high injection frequency and is of poor dynamic performance. First, a square-wave voltage signal is injected to a control shafting; then, the signal is processed based on excited current response under an observation shafting which lags behind the control shafting by 45 degrees to obtain a position deviation signal; and finally, the observed value of the rotor position is obtained through a Luenberger observer. The method of the invention is applicable to permanent-magnet synchronous motor sensorless control.

The invention discloses a method and a device for locating a single-phase grounding fault of a low-current grounding system. When the low-current grounding system has the single-phase grounding fault, a signal with pilot frequency different from grid frequency is injected between a fault phase and the ground, the voltage and current of the pilot frequency signal are detected at a signal injection end, an imaginary part of complex impedance of a fault loop under the frequency, namely a reactance value is calculated, and the distance between a signal injection point and a fault point can be obtained by multiplying the reactance value by a proportional constant. The signal is only needed to be injected at one end of a power grid, and the fault distance is directly measured and calculated, so that the method is simple and practicable, has high measuring accuracy, and has great significance for shortening fault removal time and improving the power supply quality of the power grid.

The invention discloses an on-line rotational inertia identification device for an alternate current permanent magnet servo system and an identification method, belongs to the technical field of servo motor control, and solves the problem that the conventional identification of rotational inertia of all motors is identification of rotational inertia of load mechanical systems in an off state so as not to adjust system control parameters according to current conditions of a system in real time. The device consists of a position controller, a speed controller, a torque controller, a motor and load unit, a photoelectric encoder, a differential unit, a sinusoidal signal generator and a rotational inertia identification unit; and the method comprises the following steps of: injecting a harmonic command with a lower amplitude value to a given position of a position loop motor during production run of a motor system; and extracting a motor position angle and torque control signal of a corresponding frequency component to realize on-line identification of the rotational inertia. The device and the method are suitable for on-line rotational inertia identification of the alternate current permanent magnet servo system.