US 2017/0052025 A1Published application

Method and device for measuring dip angle of oppositely crossly placed paired quartered ring-quartered circle nested polar plates

AssigneeHarbin Institute of Technology

InventorsPengcheng Hu, Jiubin Tan, Jiahao Guo

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Abstract

A method for measuring a dip angle of oppositely crossly placed paired quartered ring-quartered circle nested polar plates. An annular coplanar capacitance measuring head of a sensor unit consists of four quarter round metal plates and four quarter circular-ring-shaped metal plates, the eight metal plates are coplanar and concentric with one another, and a quarter round metal plate and a quarter circular-ring-shaped metal plate corresponding to the same sector angle form a capacitor. Two annular coplanar capacitance measuring heads are arranged on two round insulating substrates, the two round insulating substrates are used as two bottom surfaces of a cylindrical container, the cylindrical container is transversely arranged, and an insulating liquid equal to ½ volume of the cylindrical container is injected into the cylindrical container in a sealing manner. Potential leads extract potentials of the sixteen metal plates and are connected to an input end of a capacitance measuring unit, and the capacitance measuring unit is connected to a dip measuring unit. When the cylindrical container tilts, the relative positions of the two annular coplanar capacitance measuring heads and the insulating liquid are changed, and a dip angle value can be calculated by measuring the change of a capacitance value. Also disclosed is a device for measuring a dip angle of oppositely crossly placed paired quartered ring-quartered circle nested polar plates.

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A method for measuring dip angle by way of oppositely crossly placed paired quartered ring-quartered circle nested polar plates, wherein the method comprises the following steps:

(1) One round metal plate and one outer circular-ring-shaped metal plate are placed coplanar and concentric with one another, and the round metal plate and the outer circular-ring-shaped metal plate are quartered in the radial direction respectively to obtain four quarter round metal plates and four quarter circular-ring-shaped metal plates, and a quarter round metal plate and a quarter circular-ring-shaped metal plate corresponding to the same sector angle forms a capacitor, an annular coplanar capacitance measuring head is obtained by combining the four quarter round metal plates and four quarter circular-ring-shaped metal plates;
(2) The two annular coplanar capacitance measuring heads as described above are vertically immerged into the insulating liquid, with the two annular coplanar capacitance measuring heads being placed coaxially and oppositely and a quarter round metal plate and a quarter circular-ring-shaped metal plate of the two annular coplanar capacitance measuring heads being both crossly distributed, and the liquid surface of the insulating liquid passes through the center of the two annular coplanar capacitance measuring heads, and the capacitance value of the capacitor formed by a quarter round metal plate and a quarter circular-ring-shaped metal plate corresponding to the same sector angle is codetermined by the dielectric constant of air, the dielectric constant of the insulating liquid, a corresponding sector angle of a portion of respective polar plate that is exposed to the air, and a corresponding sector angle of a portion of the respective polar plate that is immerged in the insulating liquid;
(3) When the above two annular coplanar capacitance measuring heads rotate circumferentially around the center, its dip angle changes and the liquid surface of the insulating liquid maintains horizontal, and the relative positions of the two annular coplanar capacitance measuring heads and the insulating liquid change, and a corresponding section angle of a portion of the respective polar plate that is exposed to the air and a corresponding sector angle of a portion of the respective polar plate that is immerged in the insulating liquid change, and a dip angle value is calculated by measuring changes of the capacitance values of the capacitor formed by a quarter round metal plate and a quarter circular-ring-shaped metal plate corresponding to the same sector angle;
(4) The two annular coplanar capacitance measuring heads rotate circumferentially around the center, and when the liquid surface of the insulating liquid is near to the radial dividing line of any one of the annular coplanar capacitance measuring heads, the calculated result obtained by another annular coplanar capacitance measuring head is taken as the final calculated value of the dip angle.

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A device for measuring dip angle by way of oppositely crossly placed paired quartered ring-quartered circle nested polar plates, comprising a capacitance measuring unit and a dip angle calculating unit that are connected to each other, wherein the device further comprises a sensor unit, the sensor unit is configured as follows:

two round insulating substrates are mounted in a sealing manner respectively on the two opening ends of a cylindrical container with two opening-shaped ends, and two annular coplanar capacitance measuring heads A, B are mounted respectively on the inner sides of the two round insulating substrates in the chamber of the cylindrical container;
the annular coplanar capacitance measuring head A consists of four quarter round metal plates a, b, c, d and four quarter circular-ring-shaped metal plates e, f, g, h, wherein the four quarter circular-ring-shaped metal plates e, f, g, h are configured on the outer sides of the four quarter round metal plates a, b, c, d, and the four quarter circular-ring-shaped metal plates e, f, g, h are coplanar and concentric with the four quarter round metal plates a, b, c, d, the four quarter circular-ring-shaped metal plates e, f, g, h are evenly and circumferentially distributed and correspond to the four quarter round metal plates a, b, c, d respectively;
the annular coplanar capacitance measuring head B consists of four quarter round metal plates i, j, k, l and four quarter circular-ring-shaped metal plates m, n, o, p, wherein the four quarter circular-ring-shaped metal plates m, n, o, p are configured on the outer sides of the four quarter round metal plates i, j, k, l, and the four quarter circular-ring-shaped metal plates m, n, o, p are coplanar and concentric with the four quarter round metal plates i, j, k, l, and the four quarter circular-ring-shaped metal plates m, n, o, p are evenly and circumferentially distributed and correspond to the four quarter round metal plates i, j, k, l respectively;
the four quarter round metal plates a, b, c, d of the annular coplanar capacitance measuring head A and the four quarter round metal plates i, j, k, l of the annular coplanar capacitance measuring head B are crossly distributed, and the four quarter circular-ring-shaped metal plates e, f, g, h of the annular coplanar capacitance measuring head A and the four quarter circular-ring-shaped metal plates m, n, o, p, of the annular coplanar capacitance measuring head B are crossly distributed;
sixteen potential leads connect the four quarter round metal plates a, b, c, d, the four quarter circular-ring-shaped metal plates e, f, g, h, the four quarter round metal plates i, j, k, l, and the four quarter circular-ring-shaped metal plates m, n, o, p to an input end of the capacitance measuring unit, subsequently and respectively;
the cylindrical container is transversely arranged, and an insulating liquid equal to ½ volume of the cylindrical container is injected into the cylindrical container in a sealing manner.

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