Electrical protection device with analog-to-digital converter of the sigma-delta type
AssigneeSquare D Company
InventorsPatrice Allin, Jean-Paul Barjonnet, Eric Suptitz
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Abstract
The electrical protection device comprises a plurality of sensors, a multiplexer and a sigma-delta type analog-to-digital converter. The converter comprises a sigma-delta modulator in series with a numerical decimation filter. The decimation filter comprises weighting coefficients ki, of level 1 to n, such that the product of the measuring range of the signals measured by the sensors and of the ratio ∑ l m k i / ∑ l n k i is less than the precision required for said signals, the coefficients of level 1 to m being the coefficients used during the stabilization time of the modulator. The coefficients of the filter of level 1 to m are preferably zero.
Claims8
An electrical protection device comprising a plurality of sensors, a multiplexer connected to the output of the sensors to receive a plurality of electrical signals to be measured with a predetermined precision, an analog-to-digital converter, connected to the output of the multiplexer, and digital processing means connected to the analog-to-digital converter, wherein the analog-to-digital converter is a sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter comprising a sigma-delta modulator, having a preset stabilization time, connected in series with a numerical decimation filter, the decimation filter comprising a plurality of all weighting coefficients level 1 to n, such that, a first quantity corresponding to a ratio between a first sum of the coefficients, of level 1 to m, used during the modulator preset stabilization time, and a second sum of all the coefficients of level 1 to n of the filter, a second quantity corresponding to a ratio between the maximum and minimum amplitudes of the electrical signals to be measured, the product of the first and second quantities is being lower than said precision, m being much lower than n.
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