INTERFERENCE COMPENSATING SINGLE POINT DETECTING CURRENT SENSOR FOR A MULTIPLEX BUSBAR

• US 20160011239A1
• Filed: 03/25/2014
• Published: 01/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: RetiGrid Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: RetiGrid Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: YOON, Jong Chan, AHN, Young Ho
• Granted Patent: US 9,494,621 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 15/20 using galvano-magnetic devices, e.g. Hall-effect devices , i.e. measuring a magnetic field via the interaction between a current and a magnetic field, e.g. magneto resistive or Hall effect devices
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 15/207 Constructional details independent of the type of device used
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 19/0046 characterised by a specific application or detail not covered by any other subgroup of G01R19/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 33/07 Hall effect devices

Abstract

A single point detecting current sensor includes a plurality of magnetic sensor modules, wherein a magnetic sensor module is installed onto each busbars with an insulation displacement contact or is installed adjacent to each busbar, and outputs the current through a busbars measured by a magnetic sensor; a signal collection module collecting measured signals output by the plurality of magnetic sensor modules; and a signal interference compensation module deriving a corrected current value for which interference has been removed, by calculating the mutual interference between said busbars using the signals collected by said signal collection module.

Claims

1. An interference correction type single-point detection current sensor for multiple busbars, the single-point detection current sensor comprising:

a plurality of magnetic sensor modules which are brought in insulation contact with or installed adjacent to a plurality of respective busbars, measure currents flowing into the busbars using magnetic sensors, and output the measured currents;

a signal collection module which collects the measured signals output by the plurality of magnetic sensor modules; and

a signal interference correction module which derives corrected current values from which interference has been removed by calculating amounts of interference between the plurality of busbars in the signals collected by the signal collection module.

2. The single-point detection current sensor of claim 1, wherein the magnetic sensor module is configured to comprise:

the magnetic sensor which is brought in insulation contact with or installed adjacent to the busbar and collects a magnetic field line generated by a current flowing into the busbar; and

a signal analysis circuit which calculates back to information about a current that flows into the busbar by analyzing a signal collected by the magnetic sensor.

3. The single-point detection current sensor of claim 1, wherein the signal interference correction module is configured to comprise:

an interference coefficient matrix generation unit which generates an interference coefficient matrix;

an interference coefficient derivation unit which derives an interference coefficient of a corresponding busbar using the interference coefficient matrix or an interpolation method; and

a correction current value calculation unit which derives the corrected current value using the derived corresponding interference coefficient.

4. The single-point detection current sensor of claim 3, wherein:

the signal interference correction module further comprises interference correction memory which stores an interference correction equation for deriving the corrected current value using the interference coefficient matrix generated by the interference coefficient matrix generation unit and the interference coefficient, and

the interference coefficient derivation unit and the correction current value calculation unit read a value necessary to correct interference of the measured signal from the interference correction memory and calculate the corrected current value.

5. The single-point detection current sensor of claim 3, wherein a plurality of the interference coefficient matrices is generated in each predetermined unit within a predetermined range of one or more variables selected from a group comprising a temperature, current, and measured location, and distance between the busbars.

6. The single-point detection current sensor of claim 3, wherein the interference coefficient matrix is modeled and generated according to an equation below.

7. The single-point detection current sensor of claim 1, further comprising a temperature measurement module,

wherein a plurality of interference coefficient matrices is generated in each predetermined unit within a predetermined temperature range, and

the signal interference correction module derives the corrected current value using the interference coefficient matrix that complies with a temperature measured by the temperature measurement module.

8. The single-point detection current sensor of claim 1, further comprising a measurement error correction module which derives a measurement error correction value of each sensor by calculating environment variables, comprising a temperature, distance from the busbar, and intensity of a magnetic flux in the measured signal output by the magnetic sensor module,

wherein the signal interference correction module derives the corrected current value based on the measurement error correction value derived by the measurement error correction module.