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Measuring transformer

US4309655A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 23, 1978
Grant dateJan 5, 1982
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Expiry dateJun 23, 1998

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01R19/20
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A measuring transformer comprises a measuring conductor carrying the current I.sub.m to be measured, a pre-magnetizing winding which carries a pre-magnetizing current I.sub.v, and a magnetic field comparing means which is exposed to the magnetic field produced by the current I.sub.m and the magnetic field produced by the pre-magnetizing current I.sub.v and is alternately controlled in both directions of saturation. The magnetic field comparing means is a magnetic film which may be anisotropic, operated in the magnetic preferential direction, and have a thickness of at most a few microns. It may be secured to pole shoes of a magnetic core or arranged between a flat measuring conductor and a pre-magnetizing coil of flat cross-section. The measuring transformer can be used as an input transformer in a static electricity meter. In a further embodiment, the output pulses can be obtained directly from the magnetic field comparing means.

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