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Method of determining the harmonic and anharmonic portions of a response signal of a device

US8396227B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateOct 16, 2007
Grant dateMar 12, 2013
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Expiry dateApr 6, 2029

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04R29/001
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A method of determining the harmonic and anharmonic portions of a response signal (RS) of a device (2), e.g. an electro-acoustic or electric device, comprises the steps of supplying an input signal (IS) to the device (2) causing the device (2) to respond with a response signal (RS), wherein the input signal (IS) is a sinusoidal signal having a continuously increasing or decreasing frequency (f), capturing the response signal (RS), transforming the captured response signal (RS) from the time space into the phase space and analyzing the phase space transformed response signal (TRS) in respect of its harmonic and/or anharmonic portions or establishing reference functions when defining the input signal (IS) and analyzing the response signal (RS) by Fourier transformations carried out by numerical integrations of the reference functions.

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