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US 12,487,259 B2Granted
Contactless power meter
AssigneeSenva Inc.
InventorsScott Leonard, Dalton Paull, Kent Holce, Andre Perra
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Abstract
A power meter includes a housing attached to a conductor, a hall-effect current sensor disposed in the housing and contactlessly sensing a current of a conductor signal transmitted along the conductor, and a voltage sensor disposed in the housing and contactlessly sensing a voltage of the conductor signal.
Claims20
A power meter, comprising:
- a housing attached to a conductor;
- a hall-effect current sensor disposed in the housing and contactlessly sensing a current of a conductor signal transmitted along the conductor;
- a voltage sensor disposed in the housing and contactlessly sensing a voltage of the conductor signal;
- a shielding disposed in the housing and electromagnetically shielding the hall-effect current sensor and the voltage sensor;
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- a printed circuit board disposed in the housing, the hall-effect current sensor, the voltage sensor, and the shielding are disposed on the printed circuit board, the shielding has a pair of panels each extending at an angle from the printed circuit board, the hall-effect current sensor and the voltage sensor are disposed between the panels.
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A power meter, comprising:
- a housing attached to a conductor;
- a hall-effect current sensor disposed in the housing and contactlessly sensing a current of a conductor signal transmitted along the conductor;
- a voltage sensor disposed in the housing and contactlessly sensing a voltage of the conductor signal;
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- a controller connected to the hall-effect current sensor and the voltage sensor, the controller determines a power of the conductor signal from the current provided by the hall-effect current sensor and the voltage provided by the voltage sensor, the controller determines a type of powered device to which the conductor feeds the conductor signal based on at least one of the current of the conductor signal, the voltage of the conductor signal, a phase of the conductor signal, and the power of the conductor signal.
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A power meter, comprising:
- a housing attached to a conductor, the housing has a first portion and a second portion rotatable with respect to the first portion between an open position and a closed position, the conductor is positionable adjacent to the first portion of the housing in the open position and the conductor is held between the first portion and the second portion in the closed position, the first portion of the housing has a pair of protrusions, the second portion of the housing has a curved body and a pair of side sections extending from the curved body, the protrusions are positioned between the curved body and the side sections and are covered by the second portion of the housing in the closed position;
- a hall-effect current sensor disposed in the housing and contactlessly sensing a current of a conductor signal transmitted along the conductor;
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- a voltage sensor disposed in the housing and contactlessly sensing a voltage of the conductor signal.
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A power meter, comprising:
- a housing attached to a conductor;
- a hall-effect current sensor disposed in the housing and contactlessly sensing a current of a conductor signal transmitted along the conductor;
- a voltage sensor disposed in the housing and contactlessly sensing a voltage of the conductor signal;
- a controller connected to the hall-effect current sensor and the voltage sensor, the controller determines a power of the conductor signal from the current provided by the hall-effect current sensor and the voltage provided by the voltage sensor;
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- a near field communication interface connected to the controller, the near field communication interface receives a configuration signal from a computing device setting a threshold of the power of the conductor signal or the current of the conductor signal, the controller outputs a status of a powered device to which the conductor feeds the conductor signal based on the threshold.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.